SARA ELISE is a multidisciplinary creative, splitting her time between Brooklyn and The Catskills, New York, and working primarily in the hospitality, well-being, and food industries.
She is the cofounder + designer of Apogeo Collective, a hospitality collective centering the experiences of QTPOC with an internationally-based flagship hotel concept space (Apogeo Guest House). She is also the founder of Harvest & Revel, a sustainable event catering + design company based in Brooklyn.
She is the author of A Recipe for More, her debut book released with Harper Collins in May 2023.
Sara Elise has been featured in Dazed, Autostraddle, Playboy, Interview Mag, Essence, Afropunk, mindbodygreen, Healthy-ish, Well + Good, Nylon, StyleLikeU, and them, among other publications. And was named one of BK Magazine's 50 Most Fascinating People in 2022.
As an autistic Black & Indigenous femme, she spends much of her thoughtspace contemplating pleasure + pain, collective joy + healing, otherness, embodiment, remembering + reclaiming, self-destruction, and growth— and how inextricably those concepts are linked. To that end, Sara Elise has deep interests in ritualization, BDSM, relationship dynamics, and the development of decolonized personal awareness and well-being.
With all of her work, she aims to challenge our collective reality by first reimagining and then creating alternative systems and spaces for Black & Indigenous people of color and LGBTQIA2S+ people to thrive.
You can join her community-making at @SaraElise333 on Instagram, and find more of her writing at saraelise.substack.com.