A woman with blonde hair in a colorful, sequined dress sitting on a pink chair with a small white dog next to her. She is smiling and posing against a plain white background.

Sara writes fiction and essays about the search for purpose, shaped by her master’s in psychology from Harvard, two decades in BigLaw, and a life anchored by reading and her rescue pets.

Her work explores ambition, identity, and what it means to build a meaningful life. Sara spent more than twenty years practicing environmental law at Latham & Watkins (Washington DC and Chicago offices), and later as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. Mentorship was one of the great joys of her legal career, reflected in multiple Best Supervisor Awards.

Sara brings an interdisciplinary lens to her writing, drawing on degrees in psychology, law, and English literature. Her debut novel follows a female founder torn between her best friend and their billionaire angel investor as they race to take their jewelry company public. She is currently at work on two additional manuscripts exploring inheritance, identity, and second acts.

After years of city-living in Chicago and Washington, DC, Sara now lives in the Chicago suburbs with her pets. When she’s not writing or reading, she volunteers with animals and delights in Aunting her niece and five nephews.

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