Sarah was diagnosed with ALS in June 2012 at the age of 33. Prior to that, she was a runner, who completed the Portland Marathon. Sarah worked in book publishing for 11 years in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Manhattan. She is now a writer, living in San Francisco with her husband Rob, their 7-year-old daughter Scarlett, and their dog Otto.

Sarah’s work has been published in The New York Times, Scary Mommy, and Redbook Magazine. She blogs regularly at speed4sarah.com, a site devoted to raising awareness of ALS through the faces and stories of people living with the disease.