Sara Graefe
Born in Ottawa, Sara Graefe is a Vancouver-based playwright and dramaturge. She is a three-time winner of the National Arts Centre (NAC) Young Playwrights Search and her early play Sadly As I Tie My Shoes premiered to critical acclaim at the NAC Atelier. Other plays include Scribbles, Dreamspyre (Honourable Mention, Jane Chambers Playwriting Award), Yellow on Thursdays, and Courage. Sara was a screenwriter-in-residence at the Canadian Film Centre and has worked for many years in the BC film industry, including five seasons in the writing room of Edgemont, CBC-TV’s Gemini and Leo award-winning teen series. She also writes creative nonfiction and is editor of Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories (Dagger Editions/Caitlin Press), selected for the American Library Association’s 2020 Over the Rainbow Nonfiction Longlist. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing and Theatre from UBC, where she now teaches in the School of Creative Writing.