Want to know more about Sara Baysinger? Here are 10 fun facts.
- They/Them
- Born & Raised in Ecuador, SA
- Love to travel.
- Love to time travel even more.
- When I was a kid, I wanted to be a paleontologist or a turtle.
- Obsessed with Jurassic Park and Disney.
- Incurable 4w5.
- Used to make baby wipes for a living.
- Favorite color is purple.
- Most people don’t know: I’m an introvert who craves community.
Still burning with curiosity? Here’s my full bio:
I was born.
And raised in a small village in Ecuador where I was homeschooled, forged uncharted territory on horseback, and raised chickens & guinea pigs.
I hated reading until the 6th grade. My mom used to say it was like “pulling teeth” to get me to read anything. Then I turned twelve and found Harry Potter and Goosebumps and The Dragonslayers by Bruce Coville, and reading became an escape instead of a chore.
When I discovered the magic of reading, I started making up worlds in my head. I would draw alien characters in class and write fantastical stories during long church services.
When I was sixteen I moved to Indiana for the remainder of my high school years. It was here that I met the boy who would be my husband. But I didn’t know that at the time.
I went to college in Knoxville, TN for a year, then I traveled to China to teach English to middle schoolers.
When I returned to Indiana, I married that boy (mentioned above) & went to nursing school. It was during a long afternoon that I was supposed to be studying for nursing exams that I started writing my first novel. After a couple years of failing nursing exams, I decided the medical field wasn’t for me, so I started working 12-hour shifts at a factory that made baby-wipes instead. Yes. I made baby-wipes for a living, and wrote books on the side. And I loved every moment of it.
In 2016 (ironically when I self-published my first book BLACK TIGER), our small family moved out to the countryside on a 5 acre plot of land, somehow accumulated four dogs and two cats (and whichever mice decided to make a home in our barn for the winter) and I just recently discovered my love for gardening.
And that’s where I am now: mom of two young children, partner to Michael–a host of the Inglorious Pasterds Podcast, hopeless booknerd, and incurable animal/earth caretaker.
My favorite season is summer and my favorite time of day is late evening when the kids are in bed and I can watch the sunset while sipping lavender tea.
Sara, I’m reading this for the first time and you are so awesome! How cool that you lived in China for a time AND made baby-wipes I love your bio and think more people should read this! 🙂
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LOL! Aw, thank you! 😉 Making baby wipes really wasn’t all that exciting, but it’s fun to tell people I did it! China, on the other hand, was exciting! 😀
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I could imagine! I feel like it’s a unique work history to share. 🙂 What was your favorite thing about living there? Do you know some Chinese? I would love to visit Asia one day, especially Cambodia since my husband is from there. 🙂
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Each page of your life is like a whole life in itself. I am grateful to have read you so I could find your thoughts, I will look forward to escape to the worlds you have created. Best wishes from Peru. : )
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