Sarah Einstein (born 30 November 1965) is an American
essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. She is a recipient of the
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction, and the
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...
.
Early life
Sarah Einstein was born in
Huntington, West Virginia
Huntington is a city in Cabell and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Cabell County, and the largest city in the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as the Tri-State Area. A h ...
in 1965. She started writing in her twenties, after attending a writing workshop with
Kevin Oderman.
Education
Einstein earned a
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
in creative writing at
West Virginia University in 2011. Einstein earned her PhD in Creative Nonfiction in 2014 from
Ohio University. She studied under
Dinty W. Moore Dinty W. Moore (born August 11, 1955) is an American essayist and writer of both fiction and non-fiction books. He received the Grub Street National Book Prize for Non-Fiction for his memoir, ''Between Panic and Desire'', in 2008 and is also autho ...
.
Career
Einstein is currently an assistant professor of Creative Writing at the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Einstein's essays have appeared in ''
The Sun'', ''
Ninth Letter
''Ninth Letter'' is a literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration between thSchool of Art + Designand the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaig ...
'', ''Pank Magazine'', ''Fringe'', ''Quiddy'', and ''Hawai’i Pacific Review,'' among other literary journals.
She is the fiction editor at ''Stirring: A Literary Collective''
and co-author, with Dominik Henrici, of ''Writers for Dinner''.
Awards
In 2011, she received a Best of the Net Award.
That same year, she also received a
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...
.
In 2014, Einstein received the
Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction.
Works
Non-fiction books
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References
External links
''Brevity''Author Website
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1965 births
Living people
American essayists
American memoirists
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga faculty
Writers from Huntington, West Virginia
West Virginia University alumni
Memoirists from West Virginia