Sarah Hyland grew up in the lower Hudson Valley and graduated from Manhattanville College with a B.A. in Education and Psychology. After an instructor course in outdoor education at the North Carolina Outward Bound School, she led youth wilderness trips in New England, Colorado, and Utah.

Her teaching career began in Indonesia, at the North Jakarta International School, where she taught upper elementary and traveled throughout Southeast Asia. When she returned to the States, she taught at High Plain Elementary School in Andover, MA, and completed a Master’s Degree in Literacy at Lesley University. After finishing her M. Ed., she worked as a Literacy Specialist at Tapestry Charter High School, an Expeditionary Learning School in Buffalo, NY. Additionally, Sarah worked as the Literacy and Math Specialist at the Phebe Anna Thorne School, the lab school for Bryn Mawr College, and taught yoga in the Philadelphia-area. She now lives at the Hotchkiss School, where her husband, John, teaches English, with her daughter, Djuna, and her dog, Daisy.