Sage holds an MFA in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where she was awarded the John Ashbery Creative Writing Award. Sage also works as a freelance reporter, book reviewer, and comedy writer. Her writing has been featured in The Christian Science Monitor, Hyperallergic, South Side Weekly, and Cutleaf Journal. She is currently at work on her first novel.
Selected writing:
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"The Brazilian Women Clowns Fighting Back Against Bolsonaro," Hyperallergic
Palhaçaria feminina, or female clowning, is uniquely situated at the crosshairs of the president’s rhetoric against women, artists, and leftists.
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"New law could mark end of American Confederacy – in Brazil," The Christian Science Monitor
A new law banning Confederate symbols in a rural Brazilian town tests long-held beliefs about history and identity. It’s also creating opportunity for a more balanced narrative about the past.
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"Colorado Springs," Cutleaf Journal
Here’s the story: I met my boyfriend in a park in Chicago. I’d like to tell you that we met by chance, swimming in the lake, or through mutual friends, or at a bar. We didn’t. We matched on a dating app and met up the Monday after.
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"Emeline, Please Respond, For the Squid's Power Only Grows," Points in Case
I am a long term lucid dreamer. I’ve been training since age 19, always with caution: I know that if I enter into sleep paralysis, I may never wake.
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"Portugal Hospital Removes Artwork About Its Slavery Ties,” Hyperallergic
Dori Nigro and Paulo Pinto’s work discusses the Centro Hospitalar Conde de Ferreira, funded in part by the trafficking of enslaved people from Angola to Brazil.
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"As Brazil Heals From Riots, a “Museum of Democracy” Takes Shape," Hyperallergic
Hyperallergic spoke with Cecília Sá of Brazil’s Ministry of Culture to discuss the new multi-faceted public art initiative.
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"Erin Elder’s From Source to Mouth Shares the Stories of Monument Creek,” Southwest Contemporary
In From Source to Mouth, artist Erin Elder takes a multifaceted, community-sourced approach to researching Monument Creek in Colorado Springs.
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"The Fight to Save Kimball’s Peak Three, Colorado Springs’ Only Independent Movie Theater," Southwest Contemporary
Kimball’s Peak Three Theater has closed after the death of owner Kimball Bayles. Community leaders are coming together to try to save Colorado Springs’ only independent movie theater.
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"Jair Bolsonaro’s 'Aesthetic Crisis' Is Coming to an End," Hyperallergic
The right-wing populist’s tenure has been marked by campaign aesthetics and fan art considered tacky at best.
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"Your Soundtrack to Lula's Historic Defeat of Bolsonaro," Hyperallergic
From protest anthems to novelty funk beats, here are 10 emblematic songs to celebrate Lula’s historic win.
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"Ex-Girlfriends," Peach Mag
Sometimes I look at my boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend’s Facebook page. It’s more likely to happen when I’m hungry. I don’t find anything I need there—just photos of the two of them that span back to a time when my boyfriend didn’t look like my boyfriend.
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"South Shore Novelist Mixes Humor and Tragedy," South Side Weekly
A review of Gabriel Bump’s 2020 novel Everywhere You Don’t Belong.
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"A Memoir Inspired by the University of Chicago Psychiatric Ward," South Side Weekly
A review of the memoir W-3 by Bette Howland.
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"Your Aunty Linda's a Creative Now, Too," Points in Case
Shiver me limber timbers, chappie, have you heard the news? After years of creative repression, your deedle-deedle poet is back in the game!
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"Romantic Advice From a Plump Young Hen," Points in Case
Good afternoon. My name is Margie, and I’m a young, attractive hen living on a farm in Southeastern Iowa, or as I consider it, relationship hell.