Authors rarely travel a direct path to their writing career. But author Sara Schaff may have one of the most winding roads yet. She spent several years exploring the world, including a stint studying of storytelling in Northern Ireland as well as teaching in China and Columbia.
Eventually, she made her to way to the University of Michigan where we earned her MFA. And earlier this year, she published her second book of short stories, The Invention of Love. Oh, and she—and her daughter—stopped by the Jam Bunker to talk with Brad and Maxx about dinosaurs!
About Sara Schaff
Sara Schaff is the author of The Invention of Love (Split Lip Press 2020) and a previous story collection, Say Something Nice About Me (Augury Books 2016), a CLMP Firecracker Award Finalist in fiction and a 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for short fiction. Her writing is forthcoming has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Gay Magazine, The Missouri Review, Yale Review Online, The Belladonna, Michigan Quarterly Review, LitHub, and elsewhere.
A graduate of Brown University and the MFA program at the University of Michigan, Sara has taught at Oberlin College, the University of Michigan, and St. Lawrence University, as well as in China, Colombia, and Northern Ireland, where she also studied storytelling. Sara lives in the North Country of New York State with her husband, the poet Benjamin Landry, and their daughter. She is an assistant professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh.
