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Sarah Viren

Global Creative Research Faculty Fellow 2020
Desert Nights, Rising Stars Faculty 2020

About Sarah Viren

Sarah Viren is author of Mine, an essay collection that won the River Teeth Book Prize and the GLCA New Writers Award, and was longlisted or a finalist for the Pen Art of the Essay Award, a Foreword Indies Award, and a Lambda Literary Award. Sarah’s creative work has been supported by an NEA Fellowship and a Kerouac House Writing Residency, and her writing appears in or is forthcoming from the New York Times Magazine, the Oxford AmericanTexas Monthly, and elsewhere. An assistant professor of creative nonfiction at ASU, she directs the university’s graduate certificate in Nonfiction Writing and Publishing.