Sarah Samms Velázquez is a storyteller and a nature talker whose work focuses on destigmatizing the human experience by encouraging us to reach out to nature. Sarah’s work has appeared in literary & news magazines across the country including NBAP Literary Magazine, The Pacific Sentinel, Pathos Literary Magazine, Public Source, and even a community cookbook. Most recently, Sarah was awarded the 2026 Deep Ecology Artist Fellowship that comes with a short-stay residency at the United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary.

She studied creative writing at Portland State University, was awarded a diploma in western herbalism as a ‘master herbalist’ at ACHS, and studied tropical plant medicine in Manzanillo, Costa Rica at The Wild Ginger Center.

Sarah is the founder of The Medicine House, a community herbalism movement and aspiring urban herbal farm in Northern Appalachia. Sarah is also an avid hiker, a traveler of society’s underbelly and mother earth’s wonders, a music nerd, and an art dabbler.