Sarah Viren
{{short description|American essayist}}
{{Infobox Author
| name = Sarah Viren
| website = {{url|https://sarahviren.com}}
| spouse = Marta Tecedor
| notable_works = Mine (2018), To Name the Bigger Lie (2023)
}}
Sarah Viren is an American essayist best known for her 2018 essay collection Mine.
Career
In 2016, Viren won the Riverteeth Book Prize which offered publication of her essay collection Mine.{{cite web |title=2016 - Mine by Sarah Viren |url=https://www.riverteethjournal.com/contests/previous-winners-pages/2016-mine |access-date=21 June 2021}}
Mine was published in 2018 and was longlisted at the 31st Annual Lammy Finalists in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography category and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.{{cite web |title=31st Annual Lammy Finalists |website=www.lambdaliterary.org |date=7 March 2019 |url=https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2019/03/31st-annual-lammy-finalists/ }}
In 2020, The New York Times published a personal essay by Viren in which she revealed that she and her wife, Marta, both academics, were targeted with false accusations that they had sexually assaulted former students, accusations perpetuated by an unnamed academic whose harassment was based on professional jealousy.{{cite news |last1=Viren |first1=Sarah |title=The Accusation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/magazine/title-ix-sexual-harassment-accusations.html |work=The New York Times |date=18 March 2020 |access-date=21 June 2021}} The essay was also featured on an episode of The New York Times{{'}} popular podcast The Daily. It was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in feature writing in 2021.{{Cite web |title=NWP Alum Sarah Viren Named Finalist for National Magazine Award for Feature Writing |publisher=University of Iowa |url=https://english.uiowa.edu/resources/news/nwp-alum-sarah-viren-named-finalist-national-magazine-award-feature-writing |access-date=2021-08-07 }}
Viren works as an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Arizona State University.{{cite web |title=Sarah Viren |url=https://piper.asu.edu/writers/sarah-viren |access-date=21 June 2021}} She's a contributing writing for The New York Times Magazine.{{Cite news |date=2011-03-01 |title=The New York Times Magazine - Masthead |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/magazine/masthead.html |access-date=2021-08-07 |issn=0362-4331 }}
Her 2023 memoir To Name the Bigger Lie was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.{{cite web |url=https://www.them.us/story/lambda-literary-awards-2024-shortlist-announcement |title=Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards |work=them. |date=2024-03-27 |access-date=2024-04-05 }}
Viren created a miniseries called "The Inbox" for the expirimental podcast The 11th.{{cite web |title='The 11th' is a monthly, mystery box podcast |url=https://podsauce.com/articles/the-11th-is-a-monthly-mystery-box-podcast-that-will-keep-you-itching-for-more/ |website=Podsauce |access-date=22 June 2024}}
Personal life
Viren is married to fellow academic Marta Tecedor.
Works
- MINE: Essays (2018). University of New Mexico Press. {{ISBN|9780826359544}}.
- To Name the Bigger Lie (2023). Scribner. {{ISBN|9781982166595}}. {{Cite news |last=Dederer |first=Claire |date=2023-06-11 |title=When Truth No Longer Counts, How Does a Memoirist Tell Her Story? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/11/books/review/to-name-the-bigger-lie-sarah-viren.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-07-11 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Kristen |date=June 14, 2023 |title='To Name the Bigger Lie' is an investigation of the nature of truth |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2023/06/14/1181870708/book-review-sarah-viren-to-name-the-bigger-lie-an-investigation-of-truth}}
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Category:American women academics
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:American women essayists