In her fiction, Sarah P. Blanchard writes about conflicted people making difficult decisions in impossible situations, sometimes with positive outcomes. She's especially drawn to flawed, compassionate characters who believe they must battle their demons alone and complex antagonists who feel they have nothing to lose. New England-born and raised, Sarah earned her B.A. in English literature from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Nichols College in Massachusetts. She taught at the University of Hawaii-Hilo, Hawaii Community College, and UNC-Asheville's OLLI Program. She is a 2025 Pushcart Prize nominee; a winner of the National League of American Pen Women's Dorothy Daniels Fiction Award; and a finalist for the 2024 Porch Prize for short fiction and the 2021 Doris Betts Fiction Prize. After many years living away from New England, Sarah and her husband have returned home to northeastern Connecticut.