Sarah Manguso Explained

Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet.^[1] 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^[2] and a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle.^[3] Her book Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015) was also named a New York Times "Editors’ Choice."^[4] Her debut novel, Very Cold People, was published by Penguin in 2022.^[5]

Life

She was born and raised in Wellesley, near Boston, Massachusetts.^[6] 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 and in the graduate program at The New School.^[7] 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,^[8] the New York Times Magazine,^[9] and The Paris Review.^[10] Her poems have appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series.

Awards and honors

• 2012: Salon What To Read Awards, The Guardians^[11]
• 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship^[12]
• 2011: Wellcome Trust Book Prize, shortlist, The Two Kinds of Decay^[13]
• 2008: Rome Prize^[14]
• 2003: Hodder Fellowship^[15]

Published works

Prose

• Liars (Hogarth, 2024)
• Very Cold People (Hogarth, 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)

External links

• Alice James Books > Author Page > Sarah Manguso
• Author's Official Website
• The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > What We Miss by Sarah Manguso
• Audio Interview: WNYC Radio > The Leonard Lopate Show: Surviving a Major Illness > 09/05/08

Notes and References

1. Web site: From the Fishouse: Poets: Sarah Manguso Bio. Fishousepoems.org. April 6, 2022.
2. Web site: Editors' Choice. June 29, 2008. April 6, 2022. The New York Times.
3. Web site: The 50 best nonfiction books of 2008. December 21, 2008. Sfgate.com. April 6, 2022.
4. Web site: Editors' Choice. May 29, 2015. April 6, 2022. The New York Times.
5. Book: Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso. February 8, 2022 . 9780593241226. PenguinRandomhouse.com. April 6, 2022.
6. Web site: Sarah Manguso. November 14, 2019. Poetryfoundation.org. en. November 15, 2019.
7. Web site: The New School > Creative Writing > Summer Writers Colony > Courses. https://web.archive.org/web/20081220193727/http://www.newschool.edu/summerwriters/subpage.aspx?id=13564. dead. December 20, 2008. April 6, 2022.
8. Web site: Sarah Manguso . Harpers.org.
9. Web site: Letter of Recommendation: Acupuncture. Sarah. Manguso. March 17, 2016. April 6, 2022. The New York Times.
10. Web site: The Guardians. Sarah. Manguso. Theparisreview.org. February 13, 2012. April 6, 2022.
11. Web site: The What To Read Awards: Top 10 Books of 2012 . . David Daley . December 23, 2012 . December 24, 2012.
12. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Sarah Manguso. Gf.org. April 6, 2022.
13. Web site: 2011 Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist . October 10, 2011 . Joanna Bourke . . September 30, 2012.
14. Web site: Fellows - Affiliated Fellows - Residents 1990-2010 | American Academy in Rome . September 21, 2016 . December 27, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171227132531/http://aarome.org/fellows-affiliated-fellows-residents-1990-2010 . dead .
15. Web site: Faculty & Fellows. Arts.princeton.edu. April 6, 2022.