Sarah Van Steenburg was born to a White mother and an African father in the early 1970’s in the city hospital of Akron, Ohio. At birth, she was transferred to Catholic Relief Services and on the day of her arrival, she met her adoptive family – parents, brother and sister, to be followed 14 months later by her younger brother. Her father was a career military officer and Sarah grew up on and off of Army posts both abroad and in the United States.
Sarah is a graduate of both Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia School of Law. She currently works as a legal headhunter working with attorneys in the government, corporations, and large law firms.
Sarah currently resides most of the time in an old farmhouse facing the Blue Ridge outside of Charlottesville, VA and part-time in Northwest, Washington, DC. She is a painter, writer, rescue-dog mom, lover of stories, dedicated yogi and very, very slow runner. During the pandemic, she has become handy in all of the small-things-needed-to-be-done-around-the-house including re-staining her deck, rescuing a bird’s nest from under the hood of her car, and catching a opossum in her basement.