Sarah Ignatius has worked as a lawyer and executive director at several non-profit organizations fighting for human rights, and 
is a writer of middle-grade and young adult fiction. She is half-Armenian, born in Massachusetts, where she lives with her husband and son when she’s not spending time in Washington, DC, with her awesome 103-year-old father. She is drawn to stories of people who somehow found the strength, courage and hope to survive in brutal times and act on their consciences and wants to bring their lives to light through writing historical fiction.
Her manuscript The Devil’s Kaleidoscope, about a 12-year-old Armenian boy caught up in the genocide of 1915, has received recognition from the New England Society of Children’s Books Writers & Illustrators’ Ruth Landers Glass Scholarship for Novel Excerpt, and Honorable Mention from the National League of American Pen Women, Soul-Making Keats Awards. In 2023, she was selected for the Mentorship Program of the International Armenian Literary Alliance. Previously, she was selected as a Somerville Arts Council Literature Artist Fellow. Her short story Burning Embers received Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train’s 2013 Short Story Award for New Writers.
She earned her B.A, from Stanford University with Distinction and Honors in Anthropology, and her law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was Articles Editor for the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business.
She also taught immigration and asylum law at Boston College Law School for many years and is the co-author of Immigration Law and the Family (Thomson Reuters). She authored a detailed report on the U.S. asylum system for Harvard Law School, and her legal articles have appeared in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Benders Immigration Bulletin, and Immigration Briefings.