Before publishing her debut novel, The Kaleidoscope of Destiny, Sarah Ignatius worked for many years as a human rights lawyer representing people seeking political asylum after fleeing from persecution throughout the world and as a nonprofit executive director.

She is half-Armenian, born in Massachusetts, and has also called California, Washington, D.C., Montana, and Washington state home.

The Kaleidoscope of Destiny centers around the fight for survival of a 14-year-old Armenian boy during the genocide of 1915.

Sarah has received recognition from the New England Society of Children’s Books Writers & Illustrators, the National League of American Pen Women, and Glimmer Train. She was also selected as a Somerville Arts Council Literature Artist Fellow.

She taught immigration and asylum law at Boston College Law School for many years and is the co-author of Immigration Law and the Family (Thomson Reuters). She authored a detailed report on the U.S. asylum system for Harvard Law School’s National Asylum Study Project, and her legal articles have appeared in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, Benders Immigration Bulletin, and Immigration Briefings.

She earned her B.A. from Stanford University and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.