SARAH GERARD is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times Critics’ and NPR Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; the novels True Love and Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize; a coauthored art book, Recycle; and the chapbook The Butter House. A book of investigative journalism, Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, is forthcoming in July 2024.
Sarah’s short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s, The Believer, Vice, Electric Literature, and the anthologies We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida, One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism, Tampa Bay Noir, Erase the Patriarchy, I Know What’s Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, and FLORIDA! A Hyper-local Guide to the Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy of the Most Far-out State in America.
Sarah has been supported by grants, scholarships, and fellowships from Yaddo, Tin House, PlatteForum, the Whiting Foundation, Ucross, Word Riot, and Creative Pinellas. She was the 2018 – 2019 New College of Florida Writer-in-Residence, and recipient of a 2021 Lambda Literary Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.
She holds an MFA from The New School and is a graduate student in the criminal justice program at CU Denver, studying gender-based violence. She’s a private investigator in Denver.
Interview for BOMB Magazine, about True Love
Interview for The Southern Review, about True Love
Interview for The Believer, about True Love
Interview for The Brooklyn Rail, about Sunshine State
Interview for Electric Literature, about Sunshine State
Know Wave podcast with editor Erin Wicks, about Sunshine State