Sarah Mata is a writer, historian, blogger, and mother who grew up in Bourbon, MO and now resides just across the Mississippi river in Illinois. She was a four year in a row winner in both Prose and Poetry at Bourbon High School and has been writing poetry and fiction since she was very young. She received her AAS in Accounting from East Central College in Union, MO and her BA in History from the Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla, MO. She has two children, Carlos and Erika.