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Sarah Herrington (she/ her/hers) is a writer, poet, editor, dedicated yoga practitioner and teacher and writing professor/ teacher.

Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love, OpEd, Anxiety and Solver Stories columns, Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers Magazine, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, Interview Magazine, Tin House, Slice and other outlets. She’s the author of four books on yoga with presses from Penguin to Rodale/ Random House. Sarah is a regular contributor to Yoga Journal and was named one of eight female Poets to Watch by Oprah Magazine. She is currently at work on a memoir.

Sarah holds MFAs from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow in Creative Nonfiction, and Lesley University. Her creative nonfiction has been supported by fellowships from the Community of Writers and New York University's Graduate Research Initiative (GRI) and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. She has worked as a mentor with Girls Write Now and as a writer/ editor for Wanderlust.

She currently teaches writing at Fordham University and privately.

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In addition to writing, Sarah has also taught and served in yoga spaces for the past fifteen years.

She previously taught yoga and literacy full-time in New York City public schools, and out of that founded the youth yoga teacher training, OM Schooled, in 2010. Through OM Schooled she has trained hundreds of youth yoga teachers. She went on to work for the first Master of Arts in Yoga Studies in North America at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles as Program Administrator. She continues to teach remotely in the program, offering classes on how to teach youth yoga as a means of social change. She currently leads OM Schooled teacher trainings yearly through LMU Yoga Studies and the beautiful Brooklyn yoga studio Brooklyn Flow.

Sarah is an advocate for safety and sexual misconduct reporting in contemplative spaces and trauma-informed yoga for youth. On the topic of yoga and ethics, Sarah has been interviewed by NPR and CNN, and in April 2023 presented at Harvard University's Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities conference. She also leads yearly workshops on meditation and creativity for Stanford University’s summer program.

Sarah has completed over 500 hours of yoga teacher training and is a practitioner of Vipassana meditation.

Her contemplative practices inform her creative work.

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When not writing, editing or practicing yoga she’s walking her dog around the shady blocks or watching a silly reality show she’ll only tell you about if you ask directly.

She lives in Brooklyn and online.