Sarah Fay

I am a professor, critic, scholar, and creative writer. My writing appears in many publications including Longreads, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The New Republic, The American Scholar, Bookforum, BOMB, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, The Millions, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and The Paris Review, where I served as an advisory editor. I am the recipient of the Hopwood Award for Literature as well as grants and fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, Yaddo, the Center for Book Arts, the Poetry Center of Chicago, the Puffin Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the MacDowell Colony, among others. I have an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in English Literary Studies. My scholarly research is in digital humanities. I currently teach in the English departments at DePaul University and Northwestern University.

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