Sarah Wang

Artist Statement

Sarah Wang's writing across genres focuses on mass incarceration, psychoanalysis, surveillance, colonized bodies, contemporary art, class, race, and feminism.

NEW SKIN, a novel by Sarah Wang. Buy it wherever books are sold!

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.


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