Sarah Gerard

Sarah Gerard is an artist and American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She published a book of handmade collages Recycle, co-authored with the writer and artist Amy Gall. Recycle is available from Pacific. Pacific’s catalogue, including Recycle, was acquired by the MoMA Library in 2022.

Sarah’s handmade paper collages have appeared in BOMB Magazine, the Blue Earth Review, No Tokens Journal, Epiphany Magazine, and Hazlitt. She has shown her work in Colorado and New York.

Gerard is the author of two novels and a collection of essays books. The first novel, Binary Star, published in 2015, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was listed as a best book of the year by NPR, Vanity Fair and Buzzfeed. It received positive reviews in GQ and The New York Times.

Her essay collection, Sunshine State, was published in 2017 by HarperCollins. Sunshine State was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her latest novel True Love, published by HarperCollins in 2020, was a Best Book of 2020 at Glamour and Bustle, and winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award.

Her 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, and I Know What’s Best For You: Stories on Reproductive Freedom. She’s 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.