Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky was born in Hartford CT. She attended the University of Connecticut, where she studied English and Anthropology, though she did not take a degree. She has worked as a technical writer, stable hand, reporter, and in assorted office jobs, and has been writing full-time for the past several years. She married Christopher Kindred in 2000, divorcing in 2007.
Bear sold a few short stories to small-press