Sarah Louise Garrido received her MFA in Poetry from Saint Mary's College of California in 2010, where she was the recipient of the Agnes Butler Scholarship, the Alice Bagby Scholarship, as well as the
Academy of American Poets College Prize. Her work has been published
in Zocalo Public Square, Curator, Saint Mary's magazine among others,
and has also been a finalist for the Yale Younger Poets award. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and daughter.