Sarah F. Katz is a screenwriter and producer with a background in cybersecurity. Her films and screenplays have placed in the BAFTA and Oscar-qualifying Rhode Island International Film Festival, Other Worlds Film Festival, International Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival, L.A. Sci-Fi & Horror Film Festival, Indie Suspense Horror Sci-Fi Film Festival, First Contact Film Festival, IndieFEST Film Awards, American Screenwriters' Conference, Cedar Rapids Film Festival, Filmmatic Screenplay Awards, Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship, Near Nazareth Film Festival and Zed Fest Film Festival. Katz is the founder of Candid Bay Productions and served as writer and executive producer for the sci-fi short films "At the End of the Canyon" and "Rational", the latter of which champions indigenous Brazilians. Additionally, she served as executive producer and writer for the drama feature "Into the Valley" and the sci-fi web series "The Solarium". Katz's fiction writing has earned an American Fiction Award, a Cygnus Book Award for Science Fiction and a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. Her short stories have appeared in 365 tomorrows, AHF Magazine, Aphelion Webzine, Globe Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Thriller Magazine, and Yafeh Zine. Her nonfiction work has appeared in Cyber Defense Magazine, Dark Reading, Infosecurity Magazine, and ISACA Journal.