Sarah Gerard’s essay collection 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 novel Binary Star was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, and was a best-book-of-the-year at NPR, Vanity Fair, and Buzzfeed. Her novel True Love 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. 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