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]
Sarah Gerard | |
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 Gerard at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | Clearwater, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | The New School (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable works | Binary Star |
Her essay collection, Sunshine State, was published in 2017.[8] A second novel, True Love, was published by HarperCollins in 2020.[9]
Writing career
editGerard’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
editGerard is the daughter of Florida politician Pat Gerard.
Gerard attended The New School, where she received an MFA.[25]
Bibliography
edit- Things I Told My Mother (2013)
- Binary Star (2015)
- BFF (2015)
- Sunshine State (2017)
- Recycle (2018)
- True Love (2020)
References
edit- ^ Goldstein, Caroline (13 January 2015). "Sarah Gerard, Author of 'Binary Star,' on Astronomy, Obsession, Art, and Community". Bustle. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
- ^ "Binary Star". Two Dollar Radio. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Los Angeles Times | Festival of Books". Festival of Books. Archived from the original on 2017-05-19. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Gerard, Sarah (2015). Binary Star. Two Dollar Radio. ISBN 9781937512255.
- ^ Jones, Nicole. "The Best Books of 2015 for Gifting. . . and Hoarding". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Merrigan, Tara Wanda (2015-01-09). "The Six Best Books of January". GQ. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Riker, Martin (20 February 2015). "Experimental Fiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Sunshine State - Sarah Gerard - Paperback". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Gerard, Sarah (2020-07-07). True Love. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-293742-1.
- ^ "We Can't Help It If We're From Florida". Burrow Press. 2017-07-11. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Apekina, Katya; et al., eds. (2014-06-01). Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine. lulu.com. ISBN 9781312240964.
- ^ Slon, Steven (ed.). Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post 2015.
- ^ "Sarah Gerard". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Stormbound | Sarah Gerard". The Baffler. 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Sarah Gerard". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Sarah Gerard". Vice. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Gerard, Sarah. "The Summer of the Elder Tree by Marie Chaix". Bookforum. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Sarah Gerard". Hazlitt. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Mouthful". Hazlitt. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Recycle". Pacific. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Sarah Gerard". Columbia - School of the Arts. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Sarah Gerard". Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ "Writers-in-Residence". New College of Florida. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
- ^ Leah Rachel Van Essen, "Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards". Book Riot, June 2, 2021.
- ^ "INTERVIEW: Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star – Electric Literature". Electric Literature. 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
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