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Sara Larner (they/she) currently lives in Los Angeles, where they write, paint, and tend an over-ambitious number of houseplants. Writing is Sara’s main passion and career—having recently earned their MFA in Writing for Screen and Television from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and also recently completed a YA fantasy novel, they are now hard at work pursuing publication for the latter and interesting jobs that will make use of the former. Alongside their writing, they also maintain a passion for painting. While in New York, Sara founded the Aloft Harlem Art Gallery, a not-for-profit gallery aimed at promoting local, emerging talent in partnership with Aloft Hotels. Until recently, Sara curated long distance from Los Angeles, reviewing submissions online and flying out to supervise the organization and opening night of biannual installations. With the on-set of COVID, they passed on stewardship to local artists. Sara’s own paintings focus on the world of cinema, each one an abstract interpretation of a screenshot from a tv show or film.

Sara spends their free time filling painting commissions, dancing, and—whenever there is a breath of time—reading. (Okay, often reading when there is no time and they should really be doing Actual Work.)

Before USC Sara studied at Barnard College of Columbia University, majoring in English with a double concentration in Creative Writing and Film and a minor in Ancient Studies.

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