Sarah Gerard is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She worked for

Bomb Magazine ''Bomb'' (stylized in all caps as ''BOMB'') is an American arts magazine edited by artists and writers, published quarterly in print and daily online. It is composed primarily of interviews between creative people working in a variety of discipli ...

. 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 ''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make ...

'', ''

The Baffler ''The Baffler'' is an American magazine of cultural, political, and business analysis. Established in 1988 by editors Thomas Frank and Keith White, it was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, until 2010, when it moved to Cambridge, Massachusett ...

'', ''

New York Magazine ''New York'' is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City. Founded by Clay Felker and Milton Glaser in 1968 as a competitor to ''The New Yorker'' a ...

'', The Paris Review Daily, ''BOMB Magazine'', Vice, ''

Bookforum ''Bookforum'' is an American book review magazine devoted to books and the discussion of literature. After announcing that it would cease publication in December 2022, it reported its relaunch under the direction of ''The Nation'' magazine six mo ...

'', 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 Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...

, and was the 2018 – 2019 Writer-in-Residence at

New College of Florida New College of Florida is a public university, public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida, United States. The college is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. New College has the smallest student enrollment in the State U ...

. On June 1, 2021, she was named a winner of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize from the

Lambda Literary Foundation The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legaci ...

.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 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 ...

, 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 LGBTQ writers Sarah Lawrence College faculty {{US-novelist-stub