Stephanie Sauer is a writer, interdisciplinary artist, and publisher. Her most recent book, Almonds are Members of the Peach Family, won the Noemi Press Book Prize in Prose and was named a best book of the year by Entropy and Big Other. Her debut, The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force, the first artist book of its kind to be published by the University of Texas Press, is featured in City Lights Bookstore's "Pedagogies of Resistance Recommended Reading List." Sauer has earned fellowships from Yaddo, Sacatar, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a So To Speak Hybrid Book Award, Barbara Deming Award for Nonfiction, and two Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission grants. Her book works have been exhibited at the De Young Museum, the Center for Book Arts, and the National Library of Baghdad. She is the founding editor of Copilot Press and a co-founder of A Bolha Editora and Praça. She teaches writing in Stetson University's MFA of the Americas, serves as a leadership and creativity coach, and develops Lólmen Publications for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians.
