Sarah Klena

Instructor

Sarah Yukiko Klena is thrilled to be a part of the Writopia Lab team! She is originally from the Tidewater region of Virginia and is currently based in New York City. Sarah is pursuing an MFA in Fiction at Columbia University, where she was selected as a Teaching Fellow. She previously attended Sciences Po Paris and Columbia University as part of the Dual BA Program between the two institutions. Before Writopia Lab, she worked in marketing and communications. She has taught undergraduate creative writing at Columbia and is the co-founder of a French-language literary magazine that aims to uplift diverse francophone voices. She loves working with writers to discover their voices and understand the value of their stories.