Sarah Manguso is the author of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (FSG, 2008), a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her other books include the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (McSweeney's, 2007), and the poetry collections Siste Viator (Four Way, 2006) and The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James, 2002), a Village Voice Favorite Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Republic, the Paris Review, the Pushcart Prize anthology, and three volumes of the Best American Poetry series. Her awards include the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Rome, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Ledig House International Writers Residency, the MacDowell Colony, and the Corporation of Yaddo. She has taught literature and writing at the University of Iowa and in the Graduate Writing Program at New School University, and has given readings throughout the United States and Europe. She grew up near Boston, lives in New York, and teaches at the Pratt Institute.