Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), was named an "Editors’ Choice" title by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle. Her book Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015) was also named a New York Times "Editors’ Choice." Her debut novel, Very Cold People, was published by Penguin in 2022.
Life
She was born and raised in Wellesley, near Boston, Massachusetts. Manguso received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute and in the graduate program at The New School. She lives in Los Angeles, and teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University and New England College.
Her poems and prose have appeared in Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and The Paris Review. Her poems have appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series.
Awards and honors
- 2012: Salon What To Read Awards, The Guardians
- 2012: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2011: Wellcome Trust Book Prize, shortlist, The Two Kinds of Decay
- 2008: Rome Prize
- 2003: Hodder Fellowship
Published works
Prose
- Liars (Hogarth, 2024)
- Very Cold People (Hogarth, 2022)
- 300 Arguments (Graywolf, 2017)
- Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (Graywolf, 2015)
- The Guardians: An Elegy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012)
- The Two Kinds of Decay (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008)
- Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (McSweeney's Books, 2007)
Poetry
- Siste Viator (Four Way Books, 2006)
- The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James Books, 2002)
References
- "From the Fishouse: Poets: Sarah Manguso Bio". Fishousepoems.org. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- "Editors' Choice". The New York Times. June 29, 2008. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- "The 50 best nonfiction books of 2008". Sfgate.com. December 21, 2008. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- "Editors' Choice". The New York Times. May 29, 2015. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso. PenguinRandomhouse.com. February 8, 2022. ISBN 9780593241226. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- "Sarah Manguso". Poetryfoundation.org. November 14, 2019. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
- "The New School > Creative Writing > Summer Writers Colony > Courses". Archived from the original on December 20, 2008. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- "Sarah Manguso". Harpers.org.
- Manguso, Sarah (March 17, 2016). "Letter of Recommendation: Acupuncture". The New York Times. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- Manguso, Sarah (February 13, 2012). "The Guardians". Theparisreview.org. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- David Daley (December 23, 2012). "The What To Read Awards: Top 10 Books of 2012". Salon. Retrieved December 24, 2012.
- "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Sarah Manguso". Gf.org. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
- Joanna Bourke (October 10, 2011). "2011 Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist". The Lancet. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
- "Fellows - Affiliated Fellows - Residents 1990-2010 | American Academy in Rome". Archived from the original on December 27, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
- "Faculty & Fellows". Arts.princeton.edu. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
External links
- Alice James Books > Author Page > Sarah Manguso
- Author's Official Website
- The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > What We Miss by Sarah Manguso
- Audio Interview: WNYC Radio > The Leonard Lopate Show: Surviving a Major Illness > 09/05/08