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Sara is the co-founder, with Elise Chatelain, of Dismantle Magazine. Her writing has appeared in LitHub, Longreads, Hippocampus Magazine, Vox, BuzzFeed Reader, Catapult, The Outline, Inside Higher Ed, Full Stop, in Fashion, Style and Popular Culture Journal, Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, Dress, and in several collections of scholarly essays.
After many years of teaching college courses in fashion and cultural studies, Sara now works as a freelance writer and consultant. She formed Dismantle Writing Services with Elise Chatelain in 2022.
Sara is a Southern Oregonaut who moved to the big city of Portland in the ’90s but left for reasons that made sense at the time. She spent 15 years living in the South, the Midwest, the Northeast and the West before finding her way back to the Pacific Northwest and the City of Roses.
Sara Tatyana Bernstein, PhD 