Sarah Gerard Explained

Sarah Gerard
Birth Place:Clearwater, Florida, U.S.
Occupation:Novelist, writer
Nationality:American
Education:The New School (MFA)
Genre:Fiction
Notableworks:Binary Star

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]

On June 1, 2021, she was named a winner of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation.[24]

Personal life

Gerard is the daughter of Florida politician Pat Gerard.

Gerard attended The New School, where she received an MFA.[25]

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarah Gerard, Author of 'Binary Star,' on Astronomy, Obsession, Art, and Community. Goldstein. Caroline. 13 January 2015. Bustle. 15 August 2015.
  2. Web site: Binary Star. Two Dollar Radio. en. 2018-07-06.
  3. Web site: Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Festival of Books. en-US. 2018-07-06. 2017-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20170519223734/http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/book-prizes-previous-winners/. dead.
  4. Book: Binary Star. 9781937512255. en. Gerard . Sarah . 2015 . Two Dollar Radio .
  5. The Best Books of 2015 for Gifting. . . and Hoarding. Jones. Nicole. Vanity Fair. 2018-07-06. en.
  6. News: The Six Best Books of January. Merrigan. Tara Wanda. 2015-01-09. GQ. 2018-07-06. en.
  7. News: Experimental Fiction. The New York Times . 20 February 2015 . 2018-07-06. en. Riker . Martin .
  8. News: Sunshine State - Sarah Gerard - Paperback. HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. 2018-07-06. en-US.
  9. Book: Gerard, Sarah . True Love . 2020-07-07 . HarperCollins . 978-0-06-293742-1 . en.
  10. News: We Can't Help It If We're From Florida. 2017-07-11. Burrow Press. 2018-07-06. en-US.
  11. Book: Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine. Apekina. Katya. etal. 2014-06-01. lulu.com. 9781312240964. English.
  12. Book: Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post 2015. Slon. Steven. English.
  13. News: Sarah Gerard. Granta Magazine. 2018-07-06. en-US.
  14. News: Stormbound Sarah Gerard. 2017-09-22. The Baffler. 2018-07-06. en-US.
  15. Web site: Sarah Gerard. BOMB Magazine. 2018-07-06.
  16. Web site: Sarah Gerard. Vice. en-us. 2018-07-06.
  17. News: The Summer of the Elder Tree by Marie Chaix. Gerard. Sarah. Bookforum. 2018-07-06. en-US.
  18. News: Sarah Gerard. Hazlitt. 2018-07-06.
  19. News: Mouthful. Hazlitt. 2018-07-06.
  20. Web site: Recycle. Pacific. en-US. 2018-07-06.
  21. News: Sarah Gerard. Columbia - School of the Arts. 2018-07-06. en.
  22. News: Sarah Gerard. 2018-07-06. en.
  23. Web site: Writers-in-Residence. New College of Florida. en-US. 2018-07-06.
  24. Leah Rachel Van Essen, "Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards". Book Riot, June 2, 2021.
  25. News: INTERVIEW: Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star – Electric Literature. 2015-02-10. Electric Literature. 2018-07-06.

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