In the world of the living, Stephanie Sauer is the author of The Accidental Archives of the Royal Chicano Air Force (University of Texas Press), executive editor of Copilot Press, and co-founding editor of A Bolha Editora, an in-translation press headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. Her work has appeared in Verse Daily, So To Speak, Alehouse Press, Boom: A Journal of California, Lady's Comics, Alimentum, and Plastique Press; and has earned fellowships from Yaddo and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, a So To Speak Hybrid Book Award, and two Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission grants. It has also been exhibited at the De Young Museum, NYC’s Center for Book Arts, the National Library of Baghdad, Chicago Cultural Center, and various universities. She earned her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and am currently a visiting lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute.