Sarah Menkedick

Sarah Menkedick is the author of Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America. Her first book, Homing Instincts, was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Sarah's writing has been featured in Harper's, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review Daily, Aeon, Guernica, and elsewhere. She was a 2015-2016 Fulbright fellow in Oaxaca, Mexico. She holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from the University of Pittsburgh.