Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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 Boston, Massachusetts. Manguso received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the

Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...

and in the graduate program at The New School. She lives in Los Angeles, and teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University and New England College. Her poems and prose have appeared in '' Harper's'', the ''New York Times Magazine'', and '' The Paris Review''. Her poems have appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series.

Awards and honors

*2012:

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, ''The Guardians'' *2012:

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

*2011:

Wellcome Trust Book Prize Wellcome Book Prize (2009–2019 — paused) is an annual British literary award sponsored by Wellcome Trust. In keeping with the vision and goals of Wellcome Trust, the Book Prize "celebrates the topics of health and medicine in literature", inc ...

, shortlist, ''The Two Kinds of Decay'' *2008: Rome Prize *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, 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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