Sarah Cargill (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker, and spiritual care practitioner who facilitates experiments in Deep Listening. Through a constellation of prose, poetry, and sound-based performances, Sarah’s work and research mingle at the intersection of visionary fiction, speculative archive, sonic meditation, and the occult. Wielding sound as a social, political, and spiritual tool to steward change and community care, she frequently incorporates animism and ritual into her sonic world-building to blur the line between stage and living altar. Much of her work revolves around bridging the seen and the unseen, enacting a call and response between "what now?" and "what if?"

Inspired by the visionary fiction of Octavia Butler and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarah launched her podcast Tarot for the End of Times in 2020, which continues to be her longest running public experiment in community care to date. Reaching Spotify’s top 5% most globally shared podcasts by 2022, it lives on as an educational guide and open resource for those seeking spiritual care during seasons of change.

Sarah was one of San Francisco Queer Cultural Center’s 2015-2016 grantees featured at the 19th Annual National Queer Arts Festival, for which she curated and performed in Drawing Lineage, Building Legacy (2016), an intergenerational QTBIPOC-centered chamber music project. As the inaugural fellow for SOMArts Cultural Center’s Curatorial Residency Program, she produced a 3-day experimental performing arts festival called But Tell Me What It Feels Like: The Erotic Practice of Liberation (2018) at SOMArts Cultural Center. She has appeared as a soloist in numerous productions including Queer Rebels (2013), Stories of Queer Diaspora (2014), and SOMArts Cultural Center's The News (2016). Sarah has also completed fellowships and residencies with San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts (2025), This Will Take Time (2020), The Ruby (2019), San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals (2017), and The Gardarev Center (2016). They have written for various publications including SFMOMA’s (now archived) digital publication Open Space, Small Press Traffic’s The Back Room, and Montclair State University’s Peak Performances Journal. As a recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission's Individual Artist Grant for the 2020-2021 grant cycle, Sarah produced a multimedia hybrid performance series called Lucid Dreams of the Apocalypse and released an independent film of the same title in collaboration with SFMOMA’s Open Space.

In her work as an educator and arts advocate, Sarah has worked with young musicians in the Bay Area and Chicago, Illinois as a teaching artist and has served as a member of the Board of Directors for Bay Area Girls Rock Camp in Oakland, CA (2015-2017). She currently resides on unceded Lisjan Ohlone land (Huchiun), also known as Oakland, CA.