Sarah Gerard is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She worked for
Bomb Magazine. She is the author of three books. The first, a novel, ''Binary Star'', was published in 2015 by
Two Dollar Radio. It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was listed as a best book of the year by NPR and ''Vanity Fair''. It received positive reviews in GQ and ''The New York Times''.
Her essay collection, ''Sunshine State'', was published in 2017. A second novel, ''True Love,'' was published by HarperCollins in 2020.
Writing career
Gerard’s writing has been included in the anthologies ''We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida'', ''Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine'', and ''Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening Post'' (2015). Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in ''
Granta'', ''
The Baffler'', ''
New York Magazine'', The Paris Review Daily, ''BOMB Magazine'', Vice, ''
Bookforum'', and Joyland. She has written two monthly columns for the online journal, Hazlitt. Her column Mouthful chronicled her relationship with food ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia, and was illustrated by her paper collages. Gerard published Recycle, a co-authored book of collages and text, with the independent art press Pacific, in 2018. She has taught creative writing at
Columbia University and
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...
, and was the 2018 – 2019 Writer-in-Residence at
New College of Florida
New College of Florida is a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1960 as a private institution known simply as New College, spent several years merged into the University of South Florida, and in 2001 became an aut ...
.
On June 1, 2021, she was named a winner of the
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize The Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize is an American literary award, presented to two writers, one male and one female, from the LGBT community to honour their body of work. First presented by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festi ...
from the
Lambda Literary Foundation.
[Leah Rachel Van Essen]
"Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards"
''Book Riot'', June 2, 2021.
Personal life
Gerard is the daughter of Florida politician
Pat Gerard.
Gerard attended The
New School, where she received an MFA.
Bibliography
* ''Things I Told My Mother'' (2013)
* ''Binary Star'' (2015)
* ''BFF'' (2015)
* ''Sunshine State'' (2017)
* ''Recycle'' (2018)
* ''True Love'' (2020)
References
External links
Official website
Living people
American women novelists
21st-century American novelists
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American short story writers
The New School alumni
American LGBT writers
Sarah Lawrence College faculty
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