Sara Wintz is a graduate of Mills, a small women's college in Oakland, California founded in 1852 to educate the daughters of California's first gold rush, and earned her MFA in writing from the interdisciplinary Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. Her writing appears in print and online, in publications like Art Papers, JSTOR Daily, The Creative Independent, Social Text, and Chicago Review. She has been a staff writer for the Poetry Foundation's official blog, Harriet, since 2013. Ugly Duckling Presse published her first book, a personal history told by way of year-by-year Wikipedia searches through the twentieth century, in 2012.