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Sarah Cypher is a writer and editor. Before going freelance in 2003, she served as an assistant editor for the Carnegie Mellon University Press in Pittsburgh, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Creative Writing, also from CMU. In the summer of 2001 she attended Trinity College in Dublin on scholarship through the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. Now, besides editing manuscripts, she is a volunteer mentor for Communities in Schools San Antonio, and her book reviews appear regularly in The Oregonian.
She is a middling triathlete and a terrible telemark skiier, but she's good at taking apart and reassembling bicycles, juggling oranges, traveling light, and making baklava. The recipe is her great-grandmother's, who probably tasted it first near the coast of northern Lebanon, sometime before the Ottoman Empire fell.
