Sarah Gerard
{{short description|American author and novelist}}
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| birth_place = Clearwater, Florida, U.S.
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| occupation = Novelist, writer
| nationality = American
| education = The New School (MFA)
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Sarah Gerard is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She worked for Bomb Magazine.{{cite web|url=http://www.bustle.com/articles/57464-sarah-gerard-author-of-binary-star-on-astronomy-obsession-art-and-community|title=Sarah Gerard, Author of 'Binary Star,' on Astronomy, Obsession, Art, and Community|last=Goldstein|first=Caroline|date=13 January 2015|publisher=Bustle|accessdate=15 August 2015}} She is the author of three books. The first, a novel, Binary Star, was published in 2015 by Two Dollar Radio.{{Cite web|url=https://twodollarradio.com/products/binary-star?variant=1016476305|title=Binary Star|website=Two Dollar Radio|language=en|access-date=2018-07-06}} It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,{{Cite web|url=http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/book-prizes-previous-winners/|title=Los Angeles Times {{!}} Festival of Books|website=Festival of Books|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-06|archive-date=2017-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519223734/http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/book-prizes-previous-winners/|url-status=dead}} and was listed as a best book of the year by NPR{{Cite book|url=https://www.npr.org/books/titles/376165928/binary-star|title=Binary Star|isbn=9781937512255|language=en|last1=Gerard |first1=Sarah |year=2015 |publisher=Two Dollar Radio }} and Vanity Fair.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2015/12/best-book-gifts-2015|title=The Best Books of 2015 for Gifting. . . and Hoarding|last=Jones|first=Nicole|magazine=Vanity Fair|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en}} It received positive reviews in GQ{{Cite news|url=https://www.gq.com/gallery/january-best-books|title=The Six Best Books of January|last=Merrigan|first=Tara Wanda|date=2015-01-09|work=GQ|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en}} and The New York Times.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/books/review/mark-dotens-the-infernal-and-more.html|title=Experimental Fiction|newspaper=The New York Times |date=20 February 2015 |access-date=2018-07-06|language=en|last1=Riker |first1=Martin }}
Her essay collection, Sunshine State, was published in 2017.{{Cite news|url=https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062434876/sunshine-state/|title=Sunshine State - Sarah Gerard - Paperback|work=HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en-US}} A second novel, True Love, was published by HarperCollins in 2020.{{Cite book |last=Gerard |first=Sarah |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MVCrDwAAQBAJ |title=True Love |date=2020-07-07 |publisher=HarperCollins |isbn=978-0-06-293742-1 |language=en}}
Writing career
Gerard’s writing has been included in the anthologies We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida,{{Cite news|url=http://burrowpress.com/product/sink/|title=We Can't Help It If We're From Florida|date=2017-07-11|work=Burrow Press|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en-US}} Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine,{{Cite book|title=Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine|editor-last=Apekina|editor-first=Katya|display-editors=etal|date=2014-06-01|publisher=lulu.com|isbn=9781312240964|language=English}} and Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening Post (2015).{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Best-Short-Stories-Saturday-Evening-ebook/dp/B00RDR58DM/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8|title=Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post 2015|editor-last=Slon|editor-first=Steven|language=English}} Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in Granta,{{Cite news|url=https://granta.com/contributor/sarah-gerard/|title=Sarah Gerard|work=Granta Magazine|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en-US}} The Baffler,{{Cite news|url=https://thebaffler.com/latest/stormbound-gerard|title=Stormbound {{!}} Sarah Gerard|date=2017-09-22|work=The Baffler|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en-US}} New York Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB Magazine,{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/authors/sarah-gerard|title=Sarah Gerard|work=BOMB Magazine|access-date=2018-07-06}} Vice,{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/sarah-gerard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706191553/https://www.vice.com/en_us/contributor/sarah-gerard|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 6, 2018|title=Sarah Gerard|website=Vice|language=en-us|access-date=2018-07-06}} Bookforum,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bookforum.com/review/12031|title=The Summer of the Elder Tree by Marie Chaix|last=Gerard|first=Sarah|work=Bookforum|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en-US}} and Joyland. She has written two monthly columns for the online journal, Hazlitt.{{Cite news|url=https://hazlitt.net/tags/sarah-gerard|title=Sarah Gerard|work=Hazlitt|access-date=2018-07-06}} Her column Mouthful chronicled her relationship with food ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia, and was illustrated by her paper collages.{{Cite news|url=https://hazlitt.net/category/mouthful|title=Mouthful|work=Hazlitt|access-date=2018-07-06}} Gerard published Recycle, a co-authored book of collages and text, with the independent art press Pacific, in 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pacificpacific.pub/shop/recycle|title=Recycle|website=Pacific|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-06}} She has taught creative writing at Columbia University{{Cite news|url=https://arts.columbia.edu/profiles/sarah-gerard|title=Sarah Gerard|work=Columbia - School of the Arts|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en}} and Sarah Lawrence College,{{Cite news|url=https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/faculty/gerard-sarah.html|title=Sarah Gerard|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en}} and was the 2018 – 2019 Writer-in-Residence at New College of Florida.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncf.edu/about/our-campus/special-programs/writers-in-residence/|title=Writers-in-Residence|website=New College of Florida|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-06}}
On June 1, 2021, she was named a winner of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation.Leah Rachel Van Essen, [https://bookriot.com/2021-lambda-literary-awards/ "Announcing The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards"]. Book Riot, June 2, 2021.
Personal life
Gerard is the daughter of Florida politician Pat Gerard.
Gerard attended The New School, where she received an MFA.{{Cite news|url=https://electricliterature.com/interview-sarah-gerard-author-of-binary-star-52ed86d3075c|title=INTERVIEW: Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star – Electric Literature|date=2015-02-10|work=Electric Literature|access-date=2018-07-06}}
Bibliography
- Things I Told My Mother (2013)
- Binary Star (2015)
- BFF (2015)
- Sunshine State (2017)
- Recycle (2018)
- True Love (2020)
References
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External links
- [http://sarah-gerard.com Official website]
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Category:American women novelists
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American short story writers
Category:The New School alumni
Category:American LGBTQ writers
Category:Sarah Lawrence College faculty
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