Sara L. RussellSara was born in Woking, England. She grew up in Staines and was educated mainly in Surrey, after her family moved first to Devon, then to a small village in Surrey called Blindley Heath. It was her boredom in this small village (she has since moved on) which first drove her to draw cartoons - and begin to write poetry. In recent years, the internet has become an essential part of Sara's poetry activities. After devising the light-hearted nickname in her newsgroup signature, "Pinky Andrexa, last of the Cyber Vixen Poets from Outer Space", she set up a web page to showcase the work of other poets as well as her own, also giving publisher addresses. She then started a poetry ezine, which features interviews with both professional and amateur poets from the UK and the USA. Through this ezine Sara met her current publisher, Elaine Davis, of Kedco Studios / Artist Profile Press, and was later delighted to win Kedco's January 1999 poetry competition with her poem "The Insomniac's Prayer". This poem is to be featured on Kedco's Turn of The Century Award Winners Anthology on CD rom. Her first complete collection was PINKY'S LITTLE BOOK OF SHADOWS, which was Kedco's first CD ROM to feature video recitals.
Her second e-book is LIFE, TIME AND THE GOLDEN HOUR OF SLEEP, which is part of the collaborative CD "A WAY WITH WORDS" (POETRY REAL AND SURREAL) - the other poets are Dale Houstman, Jan Sand and Keith Gabriel Hendricks.
Through these two CDs, Sara has become extensively involved with the art, video / audio recital and music of e-books, as well as the poetry, becoming very much an all-round multimedia poet, as the new century begins, and willing to give advice to other poets on some of the technicalities involved in multimedia.
Her work has appeared online in Avalon, Curiouser and Curiouser, Aylad's showcase and Phantom Fantasy. Her poems have also been featured here and there in the paperback anthologies of Forward press, England, under their various imprints, including Anchor Books and Truimph House