Sarah Stewart Taylor is a journalist, fiction writer and teacher. She was born in Huntington, N.Y., on Long Island, in 1971 and studied at Middlebury College and at Trinity College, Dublin, where she read Anglo-Irish literature and wrote her M.Phil dissertation on the work of the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, a nanny, a professional dog walker, an assistant to a literary agent, a teacher in a prison, and a community college professor. Her journalism has been published in the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and many other magazines and newspapers. She is interested in the preservation of old cemeteries in Vermont and elsewhere and is a member of the Association for Gravestone Studies. She and her husband live on a farm in Vermont.