Sarah Gerard

Sarah Gerard
Gerard at the 2017 Texas Book Festival
Born Clearwater, Florida
Occupation Novelist, writer
Nationality American
Genre Fiction
Notable works Binary Star

Sarah Gerard is an American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She recently worked for Bomb Magazine.[1] She is the author of a novel, Binary Star, published in 2015 by Two Dollar Radio.[2] It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,[3] and was listed as a best book of the year by NPR[4] and Vanity Fair.[5] It received positive reviews in GQ[6] and The New York Times.[7]

Her essay collection, Sunshine State, was published in 2017.[8] It was selected as an Indie Next List pick in May 2017,[9] and was a best book of the year at The New York Times,[10] NPR,[11] BuzzFeed,[12] The Brooklyn Rail,[13] and Nylon.[14] It was longlisted for the PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay,[15] and is a 2018 Southern Book Prize Finalist.[16] It received positive reviews in Rolling Stone,[17] the Los Angeles Review of Books,[18] and The Paris Review.[19]

Writing Career

Gerard’s writing has been included in the anthologies We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida,[20] Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine,[21] and Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening Post (2015).[22] Her short stories, essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, Granta,[23] The Baffler,[24] New York Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, BOMB Magazine[25], Vice,[26] Bookforum,[27] and Joyland. She has written two monthly columns for the online journal, Hazlitt.[28]. Her column Mouthful chronicled her relationship with food ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia, and was illustrated by her paper collages.[29] Gerard published Recycle, a co-authored book of collages and text, with the independent art press Pacific, in 2018.[30]She has taught creative writing at Columbia University[31] and Sarah Lawrence College.[32]. She is the 2018 – 2019 Writer-in-Residence at New College of Florida.[33]

Personal life

Gerard is the daughter of Florida politician Pat Gerard.

Gerard struggled with anorexia and bulimia while she attended Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. She discusses this in her essay From Hunger in The New York Times.[34] In 2007, she jumped out of a moving train and ended up in the hospital, which is also discussed in the New York Times essay.[35]

Gerard attended The New School, where she received an MFA.[36]

Bibliography

  • Things I Told My Mother (2013)
  • Binary Star (2015)
  • BFF (2015)
  • Sunshine State (2017)
  • Recycle (2018)

References

  1. ↑ Goldstein, Caroline (13 January 2015). "Sarah Gerard, Author of 'Binary Star,' on Astronomy, Obsession, Art, and Community". Bustle. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Binary Star". Two Dollar Radio. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  3. ↑ "Los Angeles Times | Festival of Books". Festival of Books. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  4. ↑ Binary Star. ISBN 9781937512255.
  5. ↑ Jones, Nicole. "The Best Books of 2015 for Gifting. . . and Hoarding". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  6. ↑ Merrigan, Tara Wanda (2015-01-09). "The Six Best Books of January". GQ. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  7. ↑ "Experimental Fiction". Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  8. ↑ "Sunshine State - Sarah Gerard - Paperback". HarperCollins Publishers: World-Leading Book Publisher. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  9. ↑ "Indie Next List - May 2017 | NetGalley". NetGalley. 2017-04-11. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  10. ↑ "Times Critics' Top Books of 2017". Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  11. ↑ "NPR's Book Concierge". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  12. ↑ "The 19 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2017". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  13. ↑ "The Rail's Best Books of 2017". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  14. ↑ "Our Favorite Nonfiction Books Of 2017". NYLON. 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  15. ↑ "Announcing the 2018 PEN America Literary Awards Longlists - PEN America". PEN America. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  16. ↑ Administrator. "2018 Southern Book Prize Finalists". www.sibaweb.com. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  17. ↑ Stone, Rolling (2017-04-13). "Culture Index: 'Groundhog Day' Musical, 'Veep', 'Fate of the Furious'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  18. ↑ "The State of Post-Truth - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  19. ↑ Review, The Paris (2014-01-24). "What We're Loving: Foam, Florida, Fiction Binges". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  20. ↑ "We Can't Help It If We're From Florida". Burrow Press. 2017-07-11. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  21. ↑ Davis, Brian Joseph; results, search; results, search; results, search; Lipson, Mimi; Sol, Adam; Sappenfield, Heather; Chase, Katie; Khong, Rachel (2014-06-01). Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine. lulu.com. ISBN 9781312240964.
  22. ↑ results, search; results, search; Gray, Jim; results, search; results, search; West, Myrna; results, search; Hazelbaker, Amy; Chater, Veronica. Perry, Patrick, ed. Best Short Stories from The Saturday Evening Post 2015.
  23. ↑ "Sarah Gerard". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  24. ↑ "Stormbound | Sarah Gerard". The Baffler. 2017-09-22. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  25. ↑ "Sarah Gerard - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  26. ↑ "Sarah Gerard". Vice. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  27. ↑ Gerard, Sarah. "The Summer of the Elder Tree by Marie Chaix". Bookforum. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  28. ↑ "Sarah Gerard | Hazlitt". Hazlitt. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  29. ↑ "Mouthful | Hazlitt". Hazlitt. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  30. ↑ "Recycle". Pacific. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  31. ↑ "Sarah Gerard". Columbia - School of the Arts. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  32. ↑ "Sarah Gerard". Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  33. ↑ "Writers-in-Residence | New College of Florida". New College of Florida. Retrieved 2018-07-06.
  34. ↑ Gerard, Sarah. "From Hunger". Opinionator. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  35. ↑ "From Hunger". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  36. ↑ "INTERVIEW: Sarah Gerard, author of Binary Star – Electric Literature". Electric Literature. 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2018-07-06.

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