Sarah Kilch Gaffney

Sarah Kilch Gaffney is a writer, brain injury educator and advocate, and homemade caramel aficionado. She lives in central Maine with her family.

Much of Gaffney's writing explores her relationship with grief and the natural world, including navigating her first husband's death from a brain tumor at age thirty-one, parenting through grief, and moving forward through life in the strange space of young widowhood. Her essays, poetry, and hybrid work have appeared widely. Her essay, "Love and Grief at the Edge of the Marsh", was a finalist in the 2018 Maine Literary Awards, she is a recipient of a Maine Arts Commission grant, and she is at work on a memoir about her time on a backcountry trail crew, navigating her husband’s terminal illness, and their decision to become parents while facing great loss.