Sarah Wang
Artist Statement
Sarah Wang's writing across genres focuses on mass incarceration, psychoanalysis, surveillance, colonized bodies, contemporary art, class, race, and feminism.
Bio
Sarah Wang teaches writing at Barnard College. She has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell, NYSCA/NYFA Nonfiction, PEN America Writing for Justice, Center for Fiction, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Kundiman, and Ragdale. She is a Kenyon Review Workshop Scholar, a Tin House Scholar, and the winner of a Nelson Algren prize for fiction. Her writing appears in The New Yorker; The Atlantic; London Review of Books; The Nation; The New Republic; Harper's Bazaar; n+1; BOMB; Lux Magazine, The Believer, and McSweeney's. Her debut novel, New Skin, will be published by Little, Brown (US) and Picador (UK) in 2026.