Sarah Cortez

Sarah Cortez has taught creative writing in first-grade classrooms, juvenile detention centers, book festivals, police departments, universities, high schools, and corporate boardrooms. Her poems, essays, book reviews, and short stories are anthologized and published in journals, such as Southwestern American Literature, Rattle, The Sun, and Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. Recently anthologized in The Saint Mary’s Book of Christian Verse, and in Contemporary Catholic Poetry, she is a contributing editor for Catholic Arts Today, and arts columnist for St. Austin Review. She writes for National Catholic Register and Texas Catholic Herald. With decades of work as a developmental editor for publishers, she is the founder and president of Catholic Literary Arts, a national community of faith-filled educators and writers dedicated to furthering creative writing skills. She and Lesley Clinton are the series editors of The Living Fire: Contemporary Catholic Writers for the Classroom (Wiseblood Books, 2025).