Sara Stegen - Issue 36

Sara Stegen is a Dutch poet, equity advocate, and non-fiction author who writes about family, neurodivergence, and the landscape she lives in. Sara is a mother of two neurodivergent sons: a black belt lockpicker and a Dutch bike trial athlete. 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 (The Place of Tides, English Pastoral, A Shepherd’s Life). Home is a boulder-clay ridge in the northern Netherlands where her bike shed contains eight bicycles and where she works on a memoir about apples and autism and her first poetry collection. Sara works for Research Centre Art&Society, Hanze.

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(1) 11th-century text fragment written in Old Dutch meaning: "All birds have begun nests, except me and you – what are we waiting for now?"; The fragment (discovered in 1932) was found in manuscript that once belonged to the cathedral priory of Rochester, Kent, Great Britain. It was long thought to be the only remaining text in Old Dutch.