Sarah Leamy is a New Mexico-based writer, artist, and creative coach helping others find belonging through story, landscape, and art.
As a creative coach, author and artist based in rural New Mexico, I explore how belonging and creativity intersect through stories, workshops, and the visual.
Sometimes belonging isn’t about the place welcoming you.
It’s about showing up anyway.
About learning the shape of the wind, the bite of the cold, the way the dogs press close at night.
You stay long enough, you start to understand what the land’s been saying all along:
You can belong anywhere, if you stop waiting for permission.
Sarah Leamy is the author of Stay, G’Dog, Hidden, When No One’s Looking, Lucky Shot, and Lucky Find, as well as her award winning travelogue, Van Life. Her shorter work has been published in Los Angeles Review, Hunger Mountain, Santa Fe Writers Project, and others. Her awards include winning the NM/AZ Book Awards for her fiction, Honorable Mention for the Quill Prize (Red Hen Press) and more recently long-listed with the Santa Fe Writers Project. Find out more here.
On this website you’ll find pages dedicated to writing, books published, artwork and more. Oh, and dogs – did we mention dogs? Life with dogs is always better.
ART for sale:
Artwork is for sale directly on this website, simply note which one you like and email me at revsleam@yahoo.com. I then send you a digital file for you to print at home for only $25 each. You can pay me via PayPal at the same address of revsleam@yahoo.com.
You can also find my work at Fine Art America and buy directly from there as well as from Etsy. Both allow you to find the image you like as digital downloads, canvas prints and as designs on a variety of products.
I paint custom pup portraits and send you the matted unframed original on watercolor paper at 4×6 inches (or thereabouts) for only $75. Send me photos of the pup and I’ll take it from there.
If you would like an original painting and aren’t sure if it’s still available, just ask!
The original paintings cost
- $65 for 4×6 or 5×8 inch watercolor painting
- $75 for a custom pet portrait at 5×8 inch watercolor on 140# paper (includes shipping in USA)
- $115 for the larger paintings usually either 8×11 or 9×12 inches on 140# paper.
RECENTLY…
STAY, a hybrid memoir full of stories, sketches, and more…
2023 Madville Publishing.
“Stay is a testament to our shared humanity. On the surface, my lifestyle, sexuality, upbringing, and way of being in the world seem to share little with the author of this memoir. But in between the white pages, sketches, vivid scenes and family photos of Stay, I found new ways to view my own childhood, to forgive my own parents, new strength to forge my own path forward. Sarah’s words sear the page. Bouncing back and forth in time and place between the UK and the American Southwest, between her childhood and the gour decades following, she is honest without self-pity, reflective without psychobabble. I was sorry when it was over.”
Tej Rae, author of Sirens
“With Stay, Sarah Leamy–nomad, fearless explorer, and experimental artist on the page–weaves together photos, drawings, and prose which often reads like poetry, leap-frogging through the different stages of her life; losing, searching, and rediscovering what it means to be home. Her writing is alternately poignant and playful (she was a clown for a time!). These prose fragments follow a narrative line of her own surprising, innovative design. The snapshots of family life and life on the road call to mind Grace Paley with their spare language and simple scaffolding and the singular voice and the way they refrain from elaborate plot elements but never wander far from the heart. The book provides a home for any wanderer who ever felt like they didn’t belong.”
“Sarah Leamy’s book is both the easiest book and the hardest book that I’ve read in a very long time. Her ability to bring me into the brief stories of her journeys kept me moving ahead. Easy. Global citizen. Intriguing. And then the persistent smack of emotion that broke my heart and wished so much more and different for her. Hard. And then to understand her determination, her resilience, her search for companions that could live with her and love her. Rosie, Harold, Stevie–the best sort of companions. “Stevie sulked. Harold nestled on the bed beside you. Your other dog wagged her tail, knocked over the phone, and you smiled, finally, saying, ah, Rosie, thank you, you’re right, I don’t need to hear from anyone now.” But we have heard from you, dear Sarah! Thank you for letting us become companions on your journey!”
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