Hi! My name is Sarah Kokernot.
I’m a writer, teacher, and creative facilitator.
My fiction and essays have appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, Tricycle, EPOCH, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crazyhorse, West Branch, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and other publications.
I’m currently revising my first novel and working on an essay collection.
My writing and work intend to disrupt our habitual, unexamined ways of seeing so that we can move into an experience that is attuned, enlivened, and liberated.
I facilitate these experiences through the following:
Guidance
I guide and coach others through the creative process in a way that is both practical & intuitive
Teaching
I teach workshops on writing, ecology, and the numinous
Consulting
I consult with arts organizations on fundraising and development.
I teach writing workshops on fiction, essays, poetry, and hybrid forms.
Learn practical craft skills along with embodied meditative writing techniques that facilitate a sense wonder, enjoyment, and flow.
When you tap into a sense of openess and curiosity, you can create with more ease, less angst.
Connecting mind/heart/body practices with creative states.
The Critical Response Process by Liz Lerman, which uses inquiry, listening, collaboration, and humility.
Looking to the natural world to understand the creative process as a cycle of growth, harvest, rest, and renewal.
Struggling in traditional learning environments as someone with neurodivergence.
Teaching in a diversity of settings: as a bilingual (English/Spanish) elementary school teacher, as a professor of creative writing at a large private university, and as a instructor teaching adults at StoryStudio, a creative writing center.
Growing up in a queer family in Kentucky during the ‘80's and ‘90’s experiencing outsidership as a source of both immense difficulty and immense power.
My teaching and guidance are influenced by:
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