Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky

Rome Prize The Rome Prize is awarded by the American Academy in Rome, in Rome, Italy. Approximately thirty scholars and artists are selected each year to receive a study fellowship at the academy. Prizes have been awarded annually since 1921, with a hiatus ...

Fellowship in literature by the

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. Her memoir ''The Two Kinds of Decay'' (2008), was named an "Editors’ Choice" title by the ''New York Times Sunday Book Review'' and a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' Her book '' Ongoingness: The End of a Diary'' (2015) was also named a ''New York Times'' "Editors’ Choice." Her debut novel, ''Very Cold People'', was published by Penguin in 2022.

Life

She was born and raised near

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. Manguso received her B.A. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

and her M.F.A. from the

Iowa Writers' Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative W ...

. She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute and in the graduate program at

The New School The New School is a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1919 as The New School for Social Research with an original mission dedicated to academic freedom and intellectual inquiry and a home for progressive thinkers. ...

. She lives in Los Angeles, and teaches in the MFA program at

Antioch University Antioch University is a private university with multiple campuses in the United States and online programs. Founded in 1852 as Antioch College, its first president was politician, abolitionist, and education reformer Horace Mann. It changed its ...

and

New England College New England College (NEC) is a private liberal arts college in Henniker, New Hampshire. As of Fall 2020 New England College's enrollment was 4,327 students (1,776 undergraduate and 2,551 graduate). The college is regionally accredited by the N ...

. Her poems and prose have appeared in '' Harper's'', the ''New York Times Magazine'', and ''

The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Phil ...

''. Her poems have appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series.

Awards and honors

*2012: Salon What To Read Awards, ''The Guardians'' *2012: Guggenheim Fellowship *2011: Wellcome Trust Book Prize, shortlist, ''The Two Kinds of Decay'' *2008:

*2003: Hodder Fellowship

Published works

Prose *''Very Cold People'' (Penguin, 2022) *''300 Arguments'' (Graywolf, 2017) *'' Ongoingness: The End of a Diary'' (Graywolf, 2015) *''The Guardians: An Elegy'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) *''The Two Kinds of Decay'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) *''Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape'' (McSweeney's Books, 2007) Poetry *''Siste Viator'' ( Four Way Books, 2006) *''The Captain Lands in Paradise'' (

Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, MA in 19 ...

, 2002)

References

External links

Alice James Books > Author Page > Sarah MangusoAuthor's Official WebsiteThe Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > ''What We Miss'' by Sarah Manguso

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