Beowulf Sheehan, 2021

Beowulf Sheehan

Sarah Manguso is the author of nine books, most recently the novel Very Cold People, which was named a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award.

Her next novel, Liars, is forthcoming in summer 2024 from Hogarth Books and Picador UK.

Her other books include a story collection, two poetry collections, and four acclaimed works of nonfiction: 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize.

Her poems have appeared in four editions of the Best American Poetry series, and her essays have appeared in Frieze, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Magazine, and many other places.

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, and her writing has been translated into twelve languages.

She grew up in Massachusetts and now lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches creative writing at Antioch University and gives manuscript consultations through the Shipman Agency.