Sarah Manguso is the author of ten books, most recently the novel Liars. Her writing has been translated into fifteen languages.

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 next book, Questions Without Answers (forthcoming April 29, 2025), is a work of philosophy and a collaboration with hundreds of children, and is illustrated by Liana Finck.

Her nonfiction books include 300 Arguments, an essay-in-aphorisms; Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, a meditation on motherhood and time; The Guardians: An Elegy, an investigation of friendship and suicide; and The Two Kinds of Decay, a memoir of her experience with a chronic autoimmune disease.

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 creative writing at Antioch University and gives manuscript consultations through 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