Inspiration
Work & Publications
“Fairy Tales and Fluidity in Memoir,” Troubling Wonder, online symposium on fairy-tale studies, Cambridge University, October 2025
“In Praise of Quiet Memoir: Review of Karen Babine's The Allure of Elsewhere” (Tupelo Quarterly, July 2025)
“Review of Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters by Cathy Yue Wang,” Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Vol. 39 No.1, 2025, Wayne State University Press
Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Award Finalist, 2025 for memoir manuscript Spells to Start Believing
“Memoir as Womb Space,” presented at the London Arts-Based Research Centre’s Women Who Create conference, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, England, March 2025
“Good Old Goat” (Silly Goose Press, April 2024)
“Anatomy of a Wave” (Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, January 2024)
“Toxic Tales: The Craft of Enchantment in Fiction and Memoir,” Journal for the Fantastic in the Arts, Volume 35, No. 2, 2024
“The Craft of Enchantment,” International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando, Florida, March 2024
“Erasure: How You Were Made” (The Maine Review, September 2022)
“Rocky Road” (Literary Mama, January 2020)
“Making Mom Friends is Hard AF” (The Bold Italic, November 2019)
Admit One
Sasha grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area building theme parks in her bedroom, writing stories and poetry, and watching Star Wars and Hook on repeat. She dreamed of being a theme park designer.
Keep Hands and Feet Inside the Vehicle
Equipped with a B.S. in communications from New York University (NYU), Sasha blogged her way into the world of theme park design. Mentored by some of the biggest names in an extremely niche industry, she split her time between L.A. and Orlando to work with some of the field’s best designers as a concept writer, project coordinator, and later, a business development manager.
Please Exit the Vehicle
Though she looked like she was living her dream, there came a moment when Sasha realized that the stories she needed to tell, the ones closing in on her heart, wouldn’t pair well with theme parks. She was running a successful industry news site, creating proposals for billion-dollar projects, and helping design the storylines for world-class attractions. But none of it spoke to the emotional complexity of her inner world. Motherhood spurred her career as an author, pushing her to reconsider themes of family, identity, and folklore on a deeper level.
World-Building Continues
After earning a dual-genre MFA in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Sasha continued doing what she does best: constructing magical spaces. Inglenook Lit is an online resource and literary magazine for magic and mysticism. Its mission is to connect occult-minded readers and writers of creative nonfiction and speculative fiction, and to sprinkle enchantment over the literary community.