


Sarah Elizabeth Schantz(2016)
WRITER
Sarah Elizabeth Schantz lives in an old farmhouse on the outskirts of Boulder, Colorado, with her family, where they are surrounded by open sky, century-old cottonwoods, coyotes, and screech owls. Schantz holds an MFA in writing and poetics from Naropa University and currently teaches creative writing at Front Range Community College and through her own seasonally inspired workshop series titled (W)rites of Passage. Her first novel, Fig, won the Colorado Book Award in 2016.
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