Sarah A. Macklin is a writer born and raised just outside of Columbia, SC. She has written several short stories that have appeared in FIYAH Literary Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Translunar Traveler's Lounge, and the Griots: Sisters of the Spear anthology. Her debut novel, The Royal Heretic, was released in 2020. When not writing prose, you can find her working on comics or at her sewing machine busy with a new outfit. She resides just beyond the outskirts of suburbia with her husband and two daughters.