Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, which was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, and the novel Binary Star, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. She teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan. Her novel-in-progress is the winner of the 2019 Ellen Levine Fund for Writers Award.
She has received fellowships from Bread Loaf and the MacDowell Colony, and is an editor-at-large at Catapult. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Vogue, the New York Times Book Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Marlena, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, translated into ten languages, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including the Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. She has been nominated for many awards, including three Edgar Awards, Hammett Prize, the Shirley Jackson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Folio Prize. She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction. In 2013-14, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University.
in English and American literature from New York University. Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. Formerly a staff writer on HBO’s David Simon show, The Deuce, she is now co-creator, executive producer and show-runner of Dare Me, based upon her novel, for the USA Network and, internationally, Netflix. Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and five Edgar awards. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 20. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Believer. Her most recent book is Give Me Your Hand. Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, You Will Know Me, and The Fever. This week, the podcast features the reading and panel discussion from the LIC Reading Series event on May 9, 2017, with Megan Abbott ( Give Me Your Hand), Julie Buntin ( Marlena), and Sarah Gerard ( Sunshine State). Join them each week for stories, readings, and discussions with acclaimed writers, recorded with a live audience in the cozy carriage house of a classic pub in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and hosted by founder Catherine LaSota. Where is all of the literary love for Queens? It’s right here at LIC Reading Series.
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