Sarah Manguso is the author of ten books, most recently Questions Without Answers, a work of choral philosophy written in collaboration with hundreds of children and illustrated by Liana Finck. Sarah’s work has been translated into fifteen languages.

Her novel Liars has been shortlisted for the Carol Shields Prize and named a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Her previous novel, Very Cold People, was longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Wingate Literary Prize, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

Her nonfiction books include 300 Arguments, an aphoristic essay; Ongoingness, a meditation on motherhood and time; The Guardians, an investigation of friendship and suicide; and The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of her experience with a chronic autoimmune disease, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize.

Sarah is also the author of a story collection, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, and of the poetry collections Siste Viator and The Captain Lands in Paradise, poems from which have won a Pushcart Prize and appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series.

She has written introductions to books by Elaine Kraf and Jules Renard, and her essays have also appeared in Frieze, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times Magazine.

Her work has been recognized by an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship, and the Rome Prize.

Sarah grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at Antioch University and in the Work Room at the Shipman Agency.

Literary agent: pjmark@janklow.com
Film + TV agent: brooke.ehrlich@caa.com
Speaking agent: leslie@theshipmanagency.com
Work with Sarah: The Work Room