Sage Behr is a writer, translator, and clown from Iowa, currently based in Brooklyn.

She holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College (2025), where she was awarded the John Ashbery Creative Writing Award, a Lesley Lull Fellowship, and a Tow International Research Stipend for work on a novel about itinerant clowning in Brazil. Sage is also an adjunct professor of English at Brooklyn College.

Sage studied Comparative Literature with a focus on Literary Translation at Stanford University, graduating in 2016, and later immersed herself in clowning and performance in Buenos Aires. In 2019, she received the Distinguished Student Award at the Middlebury College Portuguese School. She was a Rona Jaffe fellow at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference in 2021 and studied experimental performance with LUME Teatro in Brazil in 2022, supported by a Fulbright Arts Research Grant.

Her writing has appeared in Cutleaf Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Hyperallergic, and Peach Mag.