Sarah Rolph has been telling business stories for over 20 years. With a strong background in technology writing, she is known for an ability to present complex technical subjects in compelling business terms.

A writer of wide ranging interests with an uncanny sense for a good story, Sarah published her first book in 2006. A1 Diner: Real Food, Recipes, and Recollections, is a history with recipes. Part non-fiction storytelling, part cookbook, it chronicles the diner’s 60 years of continuous operation in the small town of Gardiner, Maine. It’s a story of how much things have changed and how much they have stayed the same. At its heart, A1 Diner is a story about love.

Before returning to her roots as a writer, Sarah gained experience in sales, marketing, and research.

In the late 1990s she was an account manager at Prognostics, specialist in customer satisfaction and loyalty for technology companies. Sarah built and managed client relationships, defined research projects, analyzed results, wrote reports, and presented recommendations to client top management. At the same time, she prospected and closed business, achieving personal sales of more than $1 million per year. For IBM, she created an innovative market research program that was among the first to use the Internet for business-to-business research.

Prior to Prognostics, Sarah provided corporate communications to several firms, including full-time positions at two software startups: the simulation tool company
i-Logix, and the object-oriented database and middleware company ONTOS.

Early in her career, Sarah led the editorial team at The MITRE Corporation, where projects ranged from corporate communications to deep technical editing. Before joining MITRE, Sarah was a manuscript editor and feature writer at Datamation magazine.

Sarah has a bachelor of arts degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, with three years of interdisciplinary education followed by a senior-year focus on writing.