Sarah Barbo Nielsen

Sarah’s career has had three chapters so far – a U.S. army officer, a management consultant, and an energy executive. Footnotes include “Measuring Trees in Haiti” and “Teaching Writing to Undergrads Who Don’t Want to Be There.”

And through it all, she’s been writing. She lives with her family along the mountains in Colorado.

Writing

• Processing | Hippocampus Magazine “I hope we aren’t late. We can’t be late,” becomes, as my husband and I rush into the church, “Oh here it is, it is happening now.”
• But What Choice Do We Have? | Ekphrastic Review Hetty was the first to transform. 
• The Heron’s Game | Ekphrastic Review *Nominated for Best Small Fictions | The heron opens its wings wide, dwarfing its thin body with a surprising, feathered sail, and flies off with the fish speared in its beak.
• Two Screens | In a Flash My skin still smells of his skin, from feeding him back to sleep an hour ago...My hand automatically reaches for the baby monitor and I click it to life. 
• Natural Security | Sage Magazine There was a cow coming towards us in the river. As she moved closer, I spotted other cows wading behind her, nibbling on the river grass. After nine months in Iraq, I had become accustomed to the surreal.
• A Future-Back Approach to America’s Crumbling Infrastructure | Innosight LLC The devastation wrought by the hurricanes that have hit Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the islands have only brought into sharper focus the need for a long-term plan for America’s ailing infrastructure.