Sarah M. Wells is a freelance writer and award-winning author of six books:

• Ordinary Time: Meditations from the In-Between
• American Honey: A Field Guide to Resisting Temptation
• The Family Bible Devotional: Stories from the Bible to Help Kids and Parents Engage and Love Scripture
• The Family Bible Devotional: Stories from the Gospels to Help Kids and Parents Love God and Love Others, Volume 2
• Between the Heron and the Moss
• Pruning Burning Bushes

Wells is also the author of The Valley of Achor and The Body Is Not a Coffin: An Essay on Miscarriage, available on Kindle; and a chapbook of poems, Acquiesce, winner of the 2008 Starting Gate Award.

Her seventh book, To Say One Million Times, WOW: Essays on Faith, Family, and Awe from America's Great Outdoors (and Some Hotel Rooms) will be published in spring 2026.

Sarah’s work has been honored with four Pushcart Prize nominations and six of her essays have been listed as Notable Essays in The Best American Essays. She is a 2018 recipient of an Ohio Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. She writes regularly for God Hears Her (a ministry of Our Daily Bread) and serves as the poetry editor for Relief: A Journal of Art and Faith. Sarah resides in Ashland, Ohio with her husband, Brandon, and their three children, Lydia, Elvis, and Henry.