Sarah Gerard

Sarah Gerard
Gerard at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Gerard at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
BornClearwater, Florida, U.S.
OccupationNovelist, writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationThe New School (MFA)
GenreFiction
Notable worksBinary 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

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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

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Gerard is the daughter of Florida politician Pat Gerard.

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

Bibliography

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  • Things I Told My Mother (2013)
  • Binary Star (2015)
  • BFF (2015)
  • Sunshine State (2017)
  • Recycle (2018)
  • True Love (2020)

References

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