Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry (she/they) is a memoirist and essayist who writes about love, trauma, gender-based violence, queerness, and the power dynamics that influence those concerns. She is the author of the memoir "After the Eclipse," which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a Poets & Writers Notable Nonfiction Debut, and a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. Perry is the recipient of a 2020-2022 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, the 2018 Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, and fellowships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, VCCA, Playa, and The Studios of Key West. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University.

Perry will be Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas beginning in fall 2022. She was the 2019 McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College, and has also taught at Columbia University, Manhattanville College, The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, and Catapult. Her writing has appeared in Off Assignment, Elle magazine, The Guardian, and other outlets.

Originally from Maine, Perry spent ten years in the Southeast and ten years in Brooklyn, New York. She now splits her time between Denton, Texas (occupied/unceded/seized territory of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and the Caddo Nation) and Tulsa, Oklahoma (tribal lands of the Osage, Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek) People). She is working on two books: a sequel memoir titled "The Book of Regrets" and a collection of one hundred short essays called "Sweet Nothings."