A Walk Down Memory Lane

Sarah Bracey White is a Southern storyteller who draws on her personal history to craft poetry, short stories, essays, memoirs, fiction, and plays. A graduate of Morgan State University and the University of Maryland, Sarah has worked as a teacher and a librarian at colleges and in the legislative branch. She is a motivational speaker who currently works as an arts consultant. When her memoir, Primary Lessons, was transformed into an immersive, dramatic musical, Sarah was cast in the starring role of her own life, which set her on the journey to becoming a playwright and stage producer. She made her off-off-Broadway acting debut in Louisiana Shoal, which reached finalist status in the 49th annual Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival.Her other published books include The Wanderlust: A South Carolina Folk Tale and Feelings Brought to the Surface. Her essays have been anthologized in Children of the Dream; Dreaming in Color, Living in Black and White; Aunties: Thirty-Five Writers Celebrate Their Other Mother; Gardening at a Deeper Level; Mothers, Martyrs, and Jezebels, a feminist anthology; and Well Said, Well Read, a collection of curated essays from Writers Read, a Hudson Valley literary performance group to which she is a frequent contributor. Sarah was named Senior Citizen of the Year in Westchester County, New York, in 2022. In 2024, ArtsWestchester awarded her a grant to support the development and presentation of Living on Stage: My Life in Drama. Sarah is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Westchester Collaborative Theater. Visit her on the web at onmymind.org.