Sara K. Runnels is a seasoned humor writer, copywriter, screenwriter and writer-writer — and soon-to-be-published author!

She is a regular humor contributor to The New Yorker, and her words have been featured in Elle, Cosmopolitan, McSweeney’s, Betches, REI, Yahoo! Life, OverheardLA and Reader’s Digest, among other publications that respect scintillating wordplay. She also writes thoughtful personal essays to remind people she’s not a total clown.

Sara has spent more than 18 years pushing corporate boundaries by writing extremely fun and edgy copy for a variety of popular brands, including airlines, TV networks and dating apps—all of life’s necessities!

Her witticisms, viral one-liners and sharp social commentary can be found, quite literally, all over the internet under the handle @omgskr. She has amassed more than 150,000 followers across social channels, particularly for her clever dating and relationship content.

She’s written a comedy TV pilot, Thirstysomethings, and a feature-length film, Going Out, both of which received enthusiastic praise from industry professionals but are still just files sitting on her desktop.

Beyond writing, all of her free time is spent being a mom to a brand-new perfect baby girl, watching very good (and very bad) television, traveling as much as possible, drinking overpriced martinis on hotel rooftops, still adapting to the Pacific Northwest (after 13 years in NYC) and never being able to sleep because she is full of very good (and very bad) ideas. She lives with her darling husband, Adam, their sweet baby, Lenny Lou, a geriatric orange cat named Monty and maniac little pup named Tipsy in Seattle, WA.

Her memoir-in-essays, THE LAST ONE AT THE PARTY, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in Spring 2028.

14 pieces of writing to get to know SKR better:

• Finding Love After Losing My Mom (ELLE)

• A Non-Hiker’s Terms and Conditions for Hiking (The New Yorker)

• I am Proof Dating Apps Really Work (Cosmopolitan)

• When a First-Time Camping Experience Goes Horribly Just Fine (REI)

• The Silver Linings of a Miscarriage (Substack)

• We’re Getting Divorced, Please Like and Share This Post (McSweeney’s)

• Jobs You Can Add to Your Resume as a Single Person (The New Yorker)

• Part Two: Verbs in Past Tense (Medium)

• Party Ideas for Single Child-Free People (Betches)

•  40 Things I’ve Learned by 40 (Yahoo! Lifestyle)

•  Why I’m Not Losing Weight for My Wedding (Betches Brides)

•  50 of the Funniest, Realest Tweets About Dating & Being Single (Yahoo!)

• The Uncertainty of Motherhood—Revisited (Substack)