Sada was born in Mexicali in 1953. He studied journalism and Spanish literature in Sacramento, Coahuila, showing especial affinity for the works of Dante and Ovid. Sada later said of his early influences, his first contacts with literature, and the metric structures he admired: "I have a deep knowledge, from childhood, of the most elemental constructions of these metric forms, so characteristic of Spanish. In my primary school in Sacramento, Coahuila, Panchita Cabrera, a rural schoolteacher who was an ardent fan of the Spanish Golden Age (a type that no longer exists) taught us these phonetic techniques with one goal in mind: that we might fine-tune our ears in order to appreciate the expressive delicacy and virulence of our language". He was a professor at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, The Hispanic Academy of San Miguel de Allende, and the Carlos Setién Garcia School of Journalism.
