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. Science eventually called her back and in 2019 Sara finished her graduate studies in biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, focusing on arctic ground squirrel hibernation physiology and demographics. She now lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, studying violin pedagogy and science communication at Northern Arizona University.