01/10/2025
Meet Sara Easterly, gold medalist in the 2020 Illumination Book Awards in the Biography/Memoir – Personal Struggle category 🥇
With 24 years as an author, Sara’s memoir shares a unique perspective on adoption and faith—one that challenges the conventional narrative while offering hope to those who’ve felt like outsiders.
When she first heard she’d won the Illumination Award, Sara recalls, “I will never forget receiving the phone call that I’d won, and the joy and sense of belonging that I immediately felt. I was close to giving up on Searching for Mom finding value in Christian spaces. The Illumination Award showed me otherwise. It gave me courage and credibility to keep showing up and to continue using my voice.”
Today, she's proudly using the award to build credibility, highlight her work on her book cover and website, and amplify her voice in the adoptee community. She’s also published additional work and founded the Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption (adoptionfaithcollective.org).
Congratulations on your well-deserved achievement, Sara! We can’t wait to see what you do next.