Sara Century was born in Nashville in the mid-80s, but she’s moved around quite a bit since then. After calling Denver home for most of her adult life, she’s been living in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for the last few years.
As a kid, Sara sold stories to everyone she met, leveraging many a tale for a soda or candy bar. Ever since, she’s been slowly increasing her asking price while doing pretty much the same thing. The mediums may change, but her vibes have not. Sara loves animals, believes in bodily autonomy for all, and she’s been involved in a number of organizations working toward queer, antiracist, and/or environmentalist goals throughout her lifetime with no end in sight.
Having made several zines in her life, Sara recently got back into the game with movie-related zines, including Scream: An Overview of the First Six Films and My Wild Heart Bleeds With Yours: Writings On Lesbian Vampires. Her zines can be found here, and there are more on the slate ahead. If you are a fan of Sara’s essays, she currently drops two articles a month on her Ko-fi and Patreon feeds.
Sara is the co-creator of the indie superhero comic series The Forgotten Five along with Alex Segura and Pat Kennedy. This story kicked off in 2025 and we have big plans ahead, so sign up at the Patreon to read the story so far!
For horror fans, you may know Sara from anthologies like The Fiends in the Furrows II, The NoSleep Podcast, The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg, Pandemic Unleashed, Profane Altars, Feral Architecture: Ballardian Horrors, and The Pinworm Factory: A Tribute to Eraserhead. Her first short story collection, A Small Light & Other Stories, was published in December 2022 through the great Weirdpunk Books. She’s written many horror-related essays over the years, most of which can be found at Manor Vellum.
Sara is the founder of Sympathetic Lightning, a photo/video production company. The company specializes in commercial work at present, but will expand to include some narrative and documentary projects soon. Meanwhile, if you like podcasts, that’s great, because Sara is on kind of a lot of them – she is a co-founder and former host of Bitches On Comics, creator of the comic book podcast Best Issue Ever, and a guest on many others.
Sara is indeed on some social media apps some of the time, but the best way to keep up with her antics is by subscribing to her newsletter. It only goes out a few times a year. She swears that she will not spam you.
Get in touch! sara@sympatheticlightning.com