Sa’real mcrae (they/she) is a fruiting body of spirit. she is a creative and community organizer dedicated to using creative writing as a tool of liberation. At the Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference, she presented her honors thesis “God Protects Crazy People,” a collection of surrealist short stories, alongside a critical examination of spirituality and madness. This work highlighted how southern Black women’s experiences of spirituality and insanity create physical and metaphysical space to assert the fullness of their existence.

Additionally, she co-authored the article, “Youth Participatory Law Scholarship.” This work uses her narrative of the harm she’s experienced interacting with the law to teach lawyers how to work alongside young people.

A recent graduate and Presidential Scholar of Georgia State University, she has received awards for Outstanding Command of Literary Form, Outstanding Undergraduate English Major, and Women’s Herstory Outstanding Undergraduate Student. Her work has been published in the Virginia Law Review, Allegheny Review, and Nuepoca.

she is currently writing her first novel, a surrealist, transtemporal narrative that explores the rival geographies of southern Black people, from secret plantation parties to juke joints and autonomous zones.