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Sara Martin

Sara Martin
Sara Martin has received fellowships from the Jentel Foundation, Yaddo Corporation, Sundress Academy for the Arts and The Fine Arts Work Center. An excerpt from her novel in verse, They Wake Up Swinging, can be found in The Seattle Review. She teaches at Montclair State University.


On Lying About Reading, or: How I Learned That Stieg Larsson Is Good, Actually

Sara Martin Considers the Motivations Behind Our Literary Untruths
July 29, 2024  By Sara Martin
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Seeking a New Story: On Sobriety and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves

Sara Martin Considers the Sobriety Narrative and the Pitfalls of Fixed Identities
October 25, 2022  By Sara Martin
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Is There a More Interesting Way to Talk About the Blurry Line Between a Writer’s Life and Their Fiction?

Sara Martin on Legitimizing Our Lives Through the Experiences of Literary Heroes and Heroines
July 20, 2021  By Sara Martin
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Falling in Love With (and In) the Library

Sara Martin on Discovering the Philadelphia Free Library's Digital Resources... From the Inside
April 7, 2020  By Sara Martin
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Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

Or: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game
August 22, 2019  By Sara Martin
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