Sarah E. Jenkins (they/she) is a queer Appalachian artist and experimental animator from central Pennsylvania.

Their recent work explores extraction, hidden labors, and disappearance via both in-studio and site-responsive stop motion animation. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Buffalo AKG Museum, Museum of Fine Art Boston, ICA Boston, Emerson Contemporary, and the Torrance Art Museum. In 2023, the Ciné Culture Series at Massachusetts College of Art and Design screened a retrospective of Jenkins’ moving image work. From fall 2023 to spring 2024 there was a 6 month solo exhibition of Jenkins’ work Slate Lines at the Boston Children’s Museum. 

Jenkins's work has screened internationally and domestically and her festivals include the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest, Boston Underground Film Festival, GRRL HAUS Cinema, and Experimental Superstars. 

Jenkins’s residencies include MacDowell, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and the Santa Fe Art Institute’s 2023 Thematic Residency: Changing Climate. 

Their work is included in the forthcoming book Queering Appalachia's Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers from the University of Kentucky Press.