Sahara Sista Sols

Sahara currently resides in the Southeast. Originally from Knoxville, TN and raised in Baltimore, MD this migrant has recently graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with her Master's in Information Sciences. Sahara received her BA from Buena Vista University in Communication: Theatre Studies and Art Therapy.

​She is the Library Resident at Clemson University. Formerly she was the Story Center's Publication Manager for the Mid-Continent library in Kansas City, MO. In 2022 she worked as a Teen Services Librarian at the Lawrence Public Library. She also worked for nearly five years at the Saint Louis Public Library in Young Adult Services and was promoted to the Manager of Central Youth Services.

For several years, she partnered with UrbArts in St. Louis as a visual and teaching artist and received the Artist of the Year award in 2021. Currently she is working with UrbArts to create a book collection for artist and performers. Sahara has traveled and performed poetry in person and virtually across the nation. In 2021, she has released her first EP of poetry.

In 2020, Sahara started OUR SOuLS LLC an empowerment production company to promote physical wellness, host writing and performance workshops, and to support growth in the artist community.

Sahara self-published My Last Words... Not Really, a collection of plays and poetry in 2016. Her words have appeared in Enclave, WusGood, Poetry Potion, and F.A.C.E.S Magazine. She frequently performs her One Woman Show "The Family Cookbook" that has toured nationally and was a part of the 2016 St. Louis Fringe Festival.