Sarah Manguso is the author of ten books including the novels Liars and Very Cold People and the genre-defying nonfiction books Ongoingness, 300 Arguments, and The Two Kinds of Decay. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize, and her work has been translated into fifteen languages.

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Liars, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, was a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Very Cold People, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, was longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Wingate Literary Prize.

Sarah’s most recent book, Questions Without Answers, is a work of philosophy written in collaboration with hundreds of children and illustrated by Liana Finck.

Sarah’s nonfiction books include 300 Arguments, an aphoristic essay; Ongoingness, a meditation on motherhood and time; The Guardians, an investigation of friendship and suicide; and The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of her experience with a chronic autoimmune disease, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize.

Sarah is also the author of a story collection, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, and of the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise, poems from which have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series.

She has written introductions to books by Elaine Kraf and Jules Renard, and her essays have also appeared in Frieze, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Magazine.

She has written several libretti for solo voice and choir including The World, a choral symphony by Sebastian Currier, the premiere of which was named one of the best classical music performances of the year by the New York Times.

She has served as the Mary Routt Chair of Creative Writing at Scripps College and as a Distinguished Visiting Writer at St. Mary’s College, and she has also taught at Princeton, NYU, Columbia, the Pratt Institute, and the University of Iowa. She has served as the commencement speaker at the Bennington College Writing Seminars, the Drake Lecturer at Hendrix College, the Dedmon Writer in Residence at the University of Chicago, and a Writer in Residence at Sarah Lawrence and Penn State.

A citizen of the United States and Ireland, she grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles, where she currently serves as Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles.

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