Miriam Sagan was born in Manhattan, raised in New Jersey, and educated in Boston. She holds a B.A. with honors from Harvard University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University. She settled in Santa Fe in 1984.

Sagan is the author of over twenty books. Her most recent is a memoir, Searching for a Mustard Seed : A Young Widow's Unconventional Story (Quality Words in Print, 2004. Winner best Memoir from Independent Publishers, 2004). Poetry includes Rag Trade (La Alameda 2004), The Widow's Coat (Ahsahta Press, 1999), The Art of Love (La Alameda Press, 1994), True Body (Parallax Press, 1991), and Aegean Doorway (Zephyr, 1984). Her published novel is Coastal Lives (Center Press, 1991).

With Sharon Niederman, she is the editor of New Mexico Poetry Renaissance (Red Crane, 1994). Winner of the Border Regional Library Association Award and Honorable Mention Benjamin Franklin Award) and with Joan Logghe of Another Desert: The Jewish Poetry of New Mexico (Sherman Asher, 1998). She and her late husband Robert Winson wrote Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery, a joint diary (La Alameda, 1997; New World Library, 1999). She is the author of Unbroken Line: Writing in the Lineage of Poetry (Sherman Asher, 1999) which Robert Creeley called “A work of quiet compassion and great heart.”

Sagan directs the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College.

Linda Hunsaker is an Artist-in-Residence at El Zaguan, sponsored by the Historic Santa Fe Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

El Zaguan is an historic estate located on Canyon Rd. It originally was a ranch, and has also housed a hotel, school, and artist's colony. The artist, Dorothy Stewart, ran a small press and gallery here. Another notable resident was the children's book illustrator, Brinton Turkle. In 1928 El Zaguan was known as a lively center for women artists including painter, Olive Rush and architect, Katherine Muller Chapman.

Linda says, "Living in an environment with so much history is an inspiring experience. I like the idea that I am a printmaker using linocuts and sixty years ago another artist lived here and did the same. It is also wonderful to have a support system of other artists in an atmosphere where contemporary ideas and work combine with the past. "