Sarah Elizabeth Bierce (1838–1898) was an American journalist and educator who was a charter member of the Woman's Press Club of Cleveland.

She was born Sarah Elizabeth Holden in Sweden, Maine, she attended primary school in New England later moving to Michigan and graduating from Kalamazoo College in 1860.

[1] In 1885, she worked with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, contributing stories and sketches of home life and pioneer incidents.

In 1891, she was their delegate to the International League of Press Clubs, formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

[1] Bierce managed the women's literary and journalistic department of the Ohio Centennial, held in Columbus in 1888.