Anthologies containing her stories include Long Hidden, How to Live on Other Planets, Queers Destroy Science Fiction, and Whose Future is It?. Pinsker started out publishing her short fiction in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, the Journal of Unlikely Cartography, and Fireside. Later influences on her fiction include Octavia Butler, Karen Joy Fowler, Kij Johnson, and Kelly Link. Among her early influences as an author were the works of Ursula K. Pinsker says her writing is heavily influenced by the science fiction and literary fiction which filled her parents' home, adding she is one of the rare authors who read 'short stories as much as novels' when she was young.

She also volunteers as director at large for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and hosts the Baltimore Science Fiction Society's Dangerous Voices Variety Hour reading series. In addition to writing fiction she is a singer-songwriter with the band Stalking Horses and has had multiple albums released through independent labels. She currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where she has managed grants for a nonprofit. She returned to the US to attend college. When she was 14, her family settled in Toronto, Canada. Pinsker was born in New York and lived in several places of the United States including Illinois and Texas. Dick Award, the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Tiptree Awards. Her novelette 'Two Truths and a Lie' received both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award. She is a- nine-time finalist for the Nebula Award, and her debut novel A Song for a New Day won the 2019 Nebula for Best Novel while her story Our Lady of the Open Road won 2016 award for Best Novelette. Sarah Pinsker is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

A song for a new day by sarah pinsker