Sarah Wickliffe was born in New York and raised in New Jersey, the only child of jazz vocalist Roseanna Vitro and record producer/engineer, Paul Wickliffe. She has completed three short animated films; the last of which, Arts Desire, is a 4 minute animation about a character from a Picasso painting in search of a better environment, created with a mix of traditional hand drawn animation, 3d, and After Effects. Arts Desire has won a number of honors including NYU animation's Richard Protovin Award as well as the Gold Student Academy Award in Animation for 2007, and as a nominee for the Thousand Words Award at the 2007 MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival.