Sarah Wang
New York, NY
Fiction
Sarah Wang is a writer and editor who teaches creative writing at Barnard College. Her writing across genres focuses on mass incarceration, psychoanalysis, immigration, colonized bodies, feminism, class, and race. She is a 2023 MacDowell Fellow, a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Nonfiction Fellow, a 2021-2022 PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow, a 2020 Center for Fiction Susan Kamil Emerging Writer Fellow, and a 2020 Tin House Scholar. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker; The Atlantic; London Review of Books; The Nation; The New Republic; Harper's Bazaar; n+1; BOMB; The Los Angeles Review of Books; American Short Fiction; Believer; McSweeneys; and Lux Magazine; among other publications. She has been awarded fellowships from the Asian American Writers' Workshop and Kundiman. She is a Tin House Scholar, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar, a Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Frances Andrews Scholar, and the winner of a Nelson Algren prize for fiction. She has received support from Edith Wharton/Straw Dog Writers Guild, Monson Arts, Wildacres, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Plympton, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, Willapa Bay Air, Ragdale, and The Poetry Project.