Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso is the author, most recently, of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008), named an Editors' Choice by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and Time Out Chicago. She is also the author of the story collection Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape (2007), included with story collections by Dave Eggers and Deb Olin Unferth in McSweeney's One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box. Her poetry collections are Siste Viator (2006) and The Captain Lands in Paradise (2002), which was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the Village Voice. Honors for her writing include a Hodder Fellowship and the Rome Prize. A citizen of the United States and Ireland, she lives in Los Angeles.