Sarah Cypher is a freelance book editor and the author of The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine, April 2023). She holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Creative Writing Fellow in fiction. Her writing has been featured in prestigious publications such as the Washington Post, New Ohio Review, Majuscule, North American Review, LEON Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, among others. Sarah grew up in a Lebanese Christian family near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Washington, D.C., with her wife.