Sarah Einstein
| Sarah Einstein | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 30, 1965 Huntington, WV, United States |
| Occupation | non-fiction writer, essayist, memoirist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | literary nonfiction |
Sarah Einstein (born 1965) is an American essayist and writer of memoir and literary nonfiction. A recipient of the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction (2014),[1] the Pushcart Prize[2] and a Best of the Net Award[3] (2011), Einstein is the author of Remnants of Passion (Shebooks Press, 2014)[4] and Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press, 2015).[5]
Life and work
Sarah Einstein was born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1965. She earned an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at West Virginia University in 2011. Einstein's essays have appeared in The Sun, Ninth Letter, Pank Magazine, Fringe, Quiddy, and Hawai’i Pacific Review, among other literary journals. She is the fiction editor at Stirring: A Literary Collective[6] and co-author, with Dominik Henrici, of Writers for Dinner.[7]
Works
Non-fiction books
- Mot: A Memoir. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. 2015.
- Remnants of Passion. Shebooks. 2014.
Essays
- Mountain Jews. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. 2014.
- "How to Die Alone". Quiddity. 2014.
- "How to Die Alone". Quiddity. 2014.
- "Shelter". The Sun. 2014.
- "This is the Problem with all that New Age Bullshit about Thinking Positive and Not Letting the Disease Win". Gargoyle. 2014.<
- "What Therefore Dinty Has Joined Together". Bending Genre. 2014.
- "When I Lived in Manhattan". Fringe Magazine. 2013.
- "For Taube, Many Decades Later, on Why I Gave Her Baby Pink Nail Polish on Her Thirteenth Birthday when She had Asked for Cherry Red". Hawai'i Pacific Review. 2013.
- "A Meditation on Love". The Fiddleback. 2011.
- "Dick Move". Fringe Magazine. 2011.
- "Fat". PANK Magazine. 2010.
- "Self Portrait in Apologies". Fringe Magazine. 2010.
- "The Future Imperfect". Redstone Science Fiction. 2010.
- "How to Die Alone". Quiddity. 2014.
- "Mot". Ninth Letter. 2009.
- "The Way Things Go". Whitefish Review. 2008.
- "Fearsome Beauty". Fringe Magazine. 2007.
Short stories
- "Walking and Falling". Sixfold. 2013.
- "Christmas in the Mountains". Bartleby Snopes. 2010.
- "Little Deaths". Conte. 2007.
References
- ↑ "Winners of the 2014 AWP Award Series". awpwrier.org. Association of Writers and Writing Programs. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ↑ Henderson, Bill. The Pushcart Prize XXXV: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1888889604.
- ↑ "Best of the Net 2011". Sundresspublications.com. Sundress Publications. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ↑ "Author Details: Sarah Einstein". SheBooks.net. Shebooks. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
- ↑ "AWP Award Series". awpwriter.org. Association of Writers and Writing Programs.
- ↑ "Sundress Publications Masthead". Sundresspublications.com. Sundress publications.
- ↑ Einstein, Sarah. "Writers for Dinner". Writers for Dinner. Retrieved 10 October 2014.