Sarah Stonich

Sarah Stonich is an American writer and editor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her novel Vacationland was published by the University of Minnesota Press in April 2013.[1]

Background and Career

Stonich was born in northern Minnesota in the area known as the Iron Range, located northwest of Duluth. She moved to the Twin Cities in 1986, where she has worked in the literary community as a columnist, editor, and freelance writer. Her essays and short fiction have been published in Zyzzyva, Columbia Journal, and Minnesota Monthly. Stonich has been an instructor and lecturer at writing conferences and workshops at The Loft, San Miguel Allende Literary Conference, and the Aspen Writers Institute. She is also an editor at WordStalkers. She is married to Jon Ware and lives in Minneapolis.

Her first novel, These Granite Islands, was published by Little Brown in 2001 and was translated into eight languages.

Awards and honors

2011: Northeastern Minnesota Book Award[2] 2004: Loft McKnight Career Development Grant

2002: Shortlisted for Grand Prix Lectrices d’Elle for French translation of These Granite Islands

2000: Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship

1999: Loft McKnight Fellowship for Fiction

Partial Bibliography

These Granite Islands (2001, Little Brown & Co.)

The Ice Chorus (2003, Little, Brown & Co.; re-released 2009, Alma Books UK)

Shelter (2011, Borealis Books)

Vacationland (2013, University of Minnesota Press)

Reviews

Reviewing Vacationland, Kirkus Reviews said: "Each chapter renders a story complete, and the stories together weave a deeply mined narrative of place and people, elegiac yet life-affirming.[3]”

References

  1. ↑ "Vacationland". University of Minnesota Press.
  2. ↑ gtrygsta (21 December 2015). "NEMBA Previous Winners".
  3. ↑ "VACATIONLAND by Sarah Stonich - Kirkus Reviews".
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