Sara Stegen is a Dutch writer, poet and equity & inclusion advocate. She writes about people and the Dutch rural landscape she lives in. Sara is currently working on a memoir about apples and autism and her first poetry collection. She is mother of two neurodivergent sons: one a black belt lockpicker, the other a fourth-time Dutch bike trial champion. And she helps families struggling in the education system. 

She has published in The Brussels Review, Spelt, Ranchlands Review, in International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) publications, and was short-listed in the 2022 Urban Tree Festival Writing Competition. She is a member of the Poetry Society Germany Stanza group. Sara has an MA in English from the University of Groningen and is a 2022 Rural Writing Institute alumnus, a retreat run by best-selling authors Kathryn Aalto (Writing Wild, The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh) and James Rebanks (English Pastoral, A Shepherd’s Life). 

Besides being a writer, an avid recreational cyclist – there is no reason not to bike – and lover of stories, she works for the Research Centre Art&Society of Hanze University. Sara lives on a boulder-clay ridge in the northern Netherlands where her bike shed contains 8 bicycles.