Sarah Arantza Amador is an author living on the Monterey Bay of Northern California.

She writes about longing, ghost-making, and the endearment of monsters. These are the weird twists and turns of human loving kindness.

Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in wigleaf, CRAFT, CHEAP POP, and other venues. Her publications have been nominated for Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize, and anthologized in Best Microfiction 2019. She is currently completing her first novel.

Sarah is a graduate of the Creative Writing BA program at the University of California Santa Cruz and a former PhD Candidate in Spanish & Latin American Literatures at New York University; she earned her MA in Spanish & Latin American Literatures from NYU in 2010. Sarah has worked as a Spanish professor, a university lecturer in humanities and social sciences, a Spanish-English translator, and a Spanish-language reader for an international literary agency; she is currently employed as a university administrator.

Sarah took the photos and video on this website in the Atacama Desert in Chile in 2015.