Sarah Cortez

Sarah Cortez, writer and editor, has taught creative writing in first-grade classrooms, juvenile detention centers, book festivals, police departments, universities, high schools, and corporate boardrooms. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and Fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.
Her poems, essays, book reviews, and short stories are anthologized and published in journals, such as Southwestern American Literature, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. Recently anthologized in The Saint Mary’s Book of Christian Verse, she is a contributing editor for Catholic Arts Today, and arts columnist for St. Austin Review, and she writes for National Catholic Register and Texas Catholic Herald. She is a recent winner in three categories in the 2024 National Federation of Presswoman Communications Contest. She is a developmental editor for several publishers, and is founder and president of Catholic Literary Arts, a national community of faith-filled educators and writers dedicated to furthering creative writing skills.