Sarah Merritt Ryan

Sarah Merritt Ryan is a blogger, poet, and memoirist who writes and speaks on psychotic disorders, stigma, and the healing process. She writes an ongoing blog for Psychology Today called Healing Mind: My Journey to Cognitive and Emotional Recovery, has a blog profile on Life Effects, a UK blog by Teva Pharmaceuticals and for Nami.org. Her first book-length work of poetry called “My Soul to Keep: Faith in the Midst of Suffering Leads to Deliverance and Praise” is set to be published by Prolific Pulse Press in June 2026. She is also currently working on her first memoir, Threads of Truth, which is represented by a literary agent. Sarah lives in North Carolina with her husband, son, and two rescue dogs. When she isn’t writing, she is drawing.