Sarah Falkner aka S Jude Falkner aka SJ Falkner—any of which have been used as author/maker names for various projects—is a writer, editor, educator and interdisciplinary artist active in the occurrent, healing, and visual arts—and frequently in collaboration with individuals, groups, and organizations.
Their first novel Animal Sanctuary won the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction in 2011, and that same year they were a MacDowell fellow in residence; they were very active in private practice and community clinics as a NY State licensed healthcare provider in both Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley between 1998 and 2020, and from 2010-2019, they co-produced and hosted a monthly WGXC community radio program and podcast, Roots, Runners, Rhizomes: Radical Health and Healing from the Underground. Beginning in 2018, they became a co-editor (with Jason Zuzga) of OTHER for Fence, and they are also very engaged with the traditional Tibetan/Himalayan medicine tradition known as Sowa Rigpa, as an editor for Sky Press and part of the core organizational team for Sowa Rigpa Institute. They have exhibited and performed in the Northeast United States, France, and London. They currently reside in Finistère, the westernmost departement of France.
