Sara Maurer lives with her family in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She earned her bachelor's degree from Albion College and master's from Eastern Michigan University. She honed her creative writing craft while completing Stanford's Continuing Studies Novel Writing Certificate program.
Her short fiction can be found in Dunes Review, Hominum Journal, and The Twin Bill.
A Good Animal is her first novel.
Genres: Literary Fiction
New and upcoming books
Sara Maurer recommends

Wife Shaped Bodies (2026)
Laura Cranehill
"Wife Shaped Bodies reminds readers of the importance of community....Cranehill's prose is dense, alive, sticky. She relishes descriptions of fungal appendages and oozy excretions. Reading it is a fever dream."
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