​Sarah Pape is adjunct faculty in the English department and teaches courses in creative writing, editing and publishing, and advanced composition. She is the Managing Editor and Faculty Advisor for Watershed Review, CSU, Chico's digital literary magazine. She received her B.A. and M.A. in English from CSUC, and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. 

For many years she coordinated state-wide outreach programs, led professional development for high school teachers, and worked with student writing mentors.   For the past four summers, she has taught poetry and creative nonfiction for the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival in Fairbanks, Alaska.