Sarah Gerard is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She worked for Bomb Magazine.[1] She is the author of three books. The first, a novel, Binary Star, was published in 2015 by Two Dollar Radio.[2] It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,[3] and was listed as a best book of the year by NPR[4] and Vanity Fair.[5] It received positive reviews in GQ[6] and The New York Times.[7]
Her essay collection, Sunshine State, was published in 2017.[8] A second novel, True Love, was published by HarperCollins in 2020.[9]
Writing career
Gerard’s writing has been included in the anthologies We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida,[10]Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine,[11] and Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening Post (2015).[12] Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in Granta,[13]The Baffler,[14]New York Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB Magazine,[15] Vice,[16]Bookforum,[17] and Joyland. She has written two monthly columns for the online journal, Hazlitt.[18] Her column Mouthful chronicled her relationship with food ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia, and was illustrated by her paper collages.[19] Gerard published Recycle, a co-authored book of collages and text, with the independent art press Pacific, in 2018.[20] She has taught creative writing at Columbia University[21] and Sarah Lawrence College,[22] and was the 2018 – 2019 Writer-in-Residence at New College of Florida.[23]
