Sarah Willis is an American novelist and short story writer.
Her father, Kirk Willis, was an actor and director at the Cleveland Play House.
Her first novel, Some Things That Stay was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction 2000, and was awarded The Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature 2000.
She has taught creative writing workshops at John Carroll University and Hiram College and at the Maui Writer's Conference.
Sarah Willis founded and runs the Cleveland East Side Writers.