Sarah Pauling is a higher education professional in Seattle. She was a finalist for the James White Award and is a graduate of the Viable Paradise workshop. In her spare time, she handles issue launch and slush team coordination for Small Wonders.

Find her work in places like Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction. She is lead writer for the tabletop RPG Wyrd Mist, forthcoming from Gameswell.

Further hobbies include tabletop gaming, singing barbershop harmony, and reading comics in order to complain about them. She lives with two cats and a husband, all of whom collect niche items she does not recognize or know what to do with.