Sarah Juma is a Nigerian-born writer of short fiction and flash, whose work explores diaspora, class, and inheritance through the textures of everyday life — kitchens, family calls, the small negotiations of belonging. Her prose has appeared in or is forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Review, Transition, swamp pink, SmokeLong Quarterly, Vestal Review, Chestnut Review, and Brittle Paper, and her story “Mouth-Feel” was a 2027 Best Small Fictions nominee. She currently reads prose for Chestnut Review and is at work on her first novel.
She also writes for the screen. Sarah holds an MFA from Loyola Marymount University, where she held the Henry Bromell Fellowship and received the Graduate Excellence in Screenwriting award, and a BA in International Studies from Bryn Mawr College. Before writing full-time, she worked in investment banking — a background that shapes how closely her fiction watches money, status, and the systems people live inside. Her development experience includes Village Roadshow, Hello Sunshine, and Warner Bros. Discovery; she won the WeScreenplay Feature Lab in fall 2024, was a finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break Pilot Contest, and a semifinalist for the Disney Writing Fellowship. She is a member of BAFTA North America’s Newcomer cohort (2022).
When she’s not writing, you’ll find her waking up early for Liverpool FC matches (know that You’ll Never Walk Alone) or deep into a Top Chef or Real Housewives binge.
Sarah Juma, Writer & Filmmaker. 