Sara Madden is a historian, anthropologist, and writer whose work explores erased histories, collective memory, and the ways marginalized people have preserved truth when official records failed them. She is the founder of Velvet Pumpkin Books and the author of multiple works in the Hidden Histories series, including The Blame: A Hidden History of Heresy, Genius, and the Violence of Erasure. Her writing blends historical research with narrative storytelling, centering women whose lives and labor were silenced by systems of power-and the quiet forms of resistance that endured anyway. Drawing on themes of ritual, memory, and material culture, Madden's work asks how history remembers, who it forgets, and what happens when those patterns are finally named. She lives in Utah, where she continues to write about the threads that connect past and present, myth and record, silence and survival.