Inspiration:

Sarah L. Fairchild

Never read at The Lion

which is at 1309 R streets: the west wing of St. Mark's on the Campus.

Sarah Louise Sieler-Fairchild held a Masters degree in Poetry from UNL since 1986. She had become an Episcopalian and a member of this church the year before, and then was married here on January 6th, Epiphany, in1986, where she lived and raised a family until her dying day on October 30-31 in 2017.

As publisher of, and managing editor for, Black Star Press, she published many Nebraska poets, including many of the Featured Readers who have appeared at The Lion. Although she never heard of "at The Lion," which was not organized until seven years following her death, we are certain that she would have loved the idea and encouraged it strongly.