Meet Sara Ohlin
Puget Sound based writer, Sara Ohlin is a mom, wannabe photographer, obsessive reader, ridiculous foodie, and the author of the contemporary romance novels, Handling the Rancher, Salvaging Love, Seducing the Dragonfly, Igniting Love, Flirting with Forever, Promising Love, Embracing Love, Hearts in Bloom and Harvest Moon Kisses with Totally Bound Publishing.
She has a BA degree in English Literature from John Carroll University and over twenty years of creative non-fiction and memoir writing experience. You can find her essays at Panorama, Anderbo.com, Feminine Collective, Mothers Always Write, Literary Mama, and in anthologies such as Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak about Healthcare in America, Take Care: Tales, Tips, & Love from Women Caregivers, and Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Although she’s the author of many essays about life, grief, motherhood and the connections we make through delicious food and shared meals, Sara loves creating imaginary worlds with tight-knit communities in her romance novels.
If she’s not reading or writing, you will most likely find her in the kitchen creating scrumptious meals, obsessing over her garden, or perhaps cooking up her next love story. She once met a person who didn’t read books and wasn’t that into food, and it nearly broke her heart.
Photo Credit: Greg Ohlin
Sara’s Published Essays
“No Deep Roots” published at Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature, November 2022
Essays published at Project Hot Mess
Contributing writer at Her View From Home
“Kitchen of My Dreams” published at Under the Gum Tree, January 2020
“How Grief Changed My Reading” published at Women Writers, Women’s Books, October 2019
The Best Christmas Turkey that Never Was, published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas: 101 Tales of Holiday Love & Wonder, October 2019
“Longing” published in borrowed solace, September 2018
“The Truths We Keep Hidden” published at Feminine Collective, September 2018
“Always Watching, Always Wondering” published at theSame , April 2018
Book Review of Homing Instincts, by Sarah Menkedick for Literary Mama, February 2018
“Beloved Bundt Cake” published in the anthology, Take Care: Tales, Tips and Love from Women Caregivers, June 2017
“My Not So Hidden Anxiety” published at The Manifest Station, 2017
“Come Back to Me Lemon” published at Feminine Collective, 2017
“Map of Flaws” published at Mothers Always Write, 2017
“The Tiny Oh-So-Important Moments” published at The Good Mother Project, 2016
“The Loneliness of Nursing” published at The Good Mother Project, 2016
“A Chili Recipe for Lily” published at Mothers Always Write, 2015
“Composting Their Roots” published on the Seattle Neufeld Blog, 2014
“Insomnia” published in the anthology, Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak About Healthcare in America, 2008
“Thatched” published at Anderbo.com under Sara Mitchell, 2007
“One Christmas” published at www.unmadeup.com, 2007
“All that is Seen & Unseen” published in the literary magazine, Trillium Literary Journal, 2007
“Riding in the Backseat” published in the print edition of Full Circle, A Journal of Poetry & Prose, 2002 (No longer in print)
Additional Writing Credits:
Honorable Mention, 2016 Monadnock Essay Collection Prize, Bauhan Publishing, LLC
Grant Writer for Everett Community College and Poetry Northwest, 2011-2012