Sarah Bryan has worked in the field of folklife and community history documentation for twenty-five years, designing and executing many large-scale documentary initiatives. She has served as the Executive Director of the North Carolina Folklife Institute, Old-Time Music Group, and Association for Cultural Equity, and is the former Editor-in-Chief of The Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal and of The Old-Time Herald, a magazine about traditional string band music and related traditions. The co-author of Lead Kindly Light: Pre-War Music and Photographs from the American South (with Peter Honig, Dust-to-Digital, 2014) and African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina (with Beverley Patterson and Michelle Lanier, UNC Press, 2013), Sarah is currently collaborating with potter and historian Hal Pugh on a cultural history of Southern folk pottery, forthcoming from UNC Press. Her writing has appeared in the Oxford American, Southern Review, and Boulevard, among other publications, and her work has been named among the “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2018” in Best American Essays, and received a Special Mention in the 2017 Pushcart Prizes. A native of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Sarah grew up in South Carolina and Virginia in a family of Carolinian and Cuban-American heritage.