Sarah W BartlettSarah W. Bartlett was greatly influenced by her father, a world-class chemist devoted to making the world a better place. From him she learned the value of community and a love of words at play. Sarah spent the first 25 years of her professional lifeusing language in service to planning, marketing and public relations for non profit organizations. In 1993, she first participated in Women Writing for (a) Change(R), where she quickly embraced the life-altering power of sharing story within a mirroring community of women. By 2004 she had become licensed to found Women Writing for (a) Change-Vermont. LLC. In 2010, she founded writing inside VT, a weekly writing group inside Vermont's sole women's prison using the same intentional practices to encourage healing writing for personal and social change within a supportive community. Now in its eighth year, the program hosts an active blog (www.writinginsideVT.com) and continues to hold readings and book talks based on the 2013 publication of HEAR ME, SEE ME: INCARCERATED WOMEN WRITE (Orbis Books), which Sarah co-edited. She has published a number of pieces and delivered two keynote speeches about this work. Sarah's current work as change agent and poet draws on the full range of her experience and prior training, including a doctorate in health education from Harvard. Her professional publications comprise contributions to respected academic journals. Her poetry and prose has appeared in Adanna, the Aurorean, Minerva Rising, PoemMemoirStory, Mom Egg Review, Ars Medica; and highly-acclaimed anthologies, including the award-winning WOMEN ON POETRY (McFarland & Co. Inc., 2012). Her first poetry chapbook was INTO THE GREAT BLUE: MEDITATIONS OF SUMMER (Finishing Line Press, 2011). Language remains the medium for her dual life work: creating communities that support individual transformation and healing, and her own creative writing. She does not know how to live without pen in hand. Like the hummingbird who has taught her to see deep into the heart of things, she seeks to awaken the soul to presence. Her reflections on both external and interior worlds draw on family and her homes in the Vermont mountains and Massachusetts shore, where she lives with her husband and pets. Read More Read Less