About Sarah

Sarah Elizabeth Richards is a New York City-based journalist and the author of Motherhood, Rescheduled: Life Off the Biological Clock, a narrative non-fiction book that chronicles the lives of five women who attempt to preserve their fertility by freezing their eggs (to be published by Simon & Schuster in January 2013). 

Sarah specializes in covering health and medicine, psychology and social issues and has written for two dozen newspapers, magazines, and websites – including the Financial Times, The Washington Post, Marie Claire, Elle, Slate and Salon. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, she holds master's degrees from the Graduate School of Journalism and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Sarah recently attended the course "Medicine in the Media: The Challenge of Reporting on Medical Research" offered by the National Institutes of Health. She is a two-time winner of the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page award.