Sara Madden is a writer, historian, and anthropologist whose work centers on forgotten lives, erased narratives, and the people history asks to bear impossible burdens in silence. She is the author of multiple narrative nonfiction and myth-reimagining works across her Hidden Histories and Rewoven Fairytales series, which explore themes of memory, care, trauma, and moral responsibility through both historical and symbolic lenses. Her writing blends rigorous research with lyrical storytelling, giving voice to those often reduced to footnotes-or left out of the record entirely. Drawing on her academic background in history and anthropology, as well as her professional experience working with humanitarian organizations and vulnerable communities, Madden approaches storytelling as an act of witnessing. Her work consistently asks not only what happened, but who remembered-and who kept watch. She lives in Utah, where she continues to write about war, childhood, care, and the enduring human instinct to leave the window open.