Sara Wilbur is from Fairbanks, Alaska. Much of her childhood was spent on rivers, on skis, and with a violin in her hands. Sara left Alaska to pursue undergraduate studies in biology and music at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. A six-year hiatus from academia was spent touring the country with a folk band called Patchy Sanders and playing in southern Oregon's Rogue Valley Symphony. She is now a third-year master's student in biological sciences with a focus on hibernation physiology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. When not playing with arctic ground squirrel DNA, Sara spends her time running with her dog, performing with the Fairbanks music community, and reading.