Sara Blask is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. Previous homes have included two years in a wind-battered apartment in Reykjavik, a clay hut in Cochabamba, a shrapnel-scarred apartment in Pristina, and a greenhouse in Santa Fe. Before paring down her belongings, Sara worked as a volunteer Wilderness EMT in the White Mountains, a dogsledding guide in northern Maine, and a logistics coordinator for Hurricane Island Outward Bound School.
Her stories have appeared in
The Christian Science Monitor, Outside, Outside Go, Men's Journal, The Smart Set, and
Plenty, among other publications. She is the recipient of a 2009
Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for a piece she wrote about
roast goose
that appeared in the December 2008 issue of
Outside Go.
Sara is a graduate of Colby College and holds a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
