Sarah Kilch Gaffney

Sarah Kilch Gaffney is a writer, brain injury advocate, bereavement volunteer, and community writing workshop facilitator. She lives in central Maine with her family.

Much of Gaffney’s writing explores her relationship with grief, caregiving, and the natural world, including navigating her first husband’s death from a brain tumor at age thirty-one, parenting through grief, and navigating family health challenges. Her essays, poetry, articles, and hybrid work have appeared widely, and she is at work on a memoir about her time on a backcountry trail crew, navigating her husband’s terminal illness, and their decision to become parents while facing great loss.