Sarah Bess Jaffe

Sarah Bess Jaffe is an award-winning audio producer, visual artist, and Creative Writing MFA candidate at St. Joseph’s University, where she is a Barbara Germack Foundry Fellow and co-editor of The Writer’s Foundry Review. Sarah is also a co-founder of the TBR monthly reading series, a translations reader for The Adroit Journal, and a 2025 writer-in-residence at La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts in Burgundy, France. Her work is featured and forthcoming in Peatsmoke, Ignatian, Fusion Fragment, JAKE, and countless Penguin Random House Audio productions. She is currently working on a short story collection, her first novel, and a hand-watercolored graphic narrative about the rise of the far-right in the US and Europe.