About

Sarah Anne Strickley is the author of four books of prose: a collection of creative nonfiction, Ode to Collapse (forthcoming in 2026 from FLP); a short story collection, Incendiary Devices (Tolsun Books, 2023); the novella, Sister (Summer Camp Publishing, 2021); and the short story collection, Fall Together (Gold Wake Press, 2018). She’s a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowship, an Ohio Arts grant, a Glenn Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters, the Copper Nickel Editors’ Prize for Prose and other honors. Her stories and essays have appeared in Oxford American, A Public Space, Witness, Harvard Review, Gulf Coast, The Southeast Review, The Normal School, Ninth Letter, Hotel Amerika, Copper Nickel, storySouth and elsewhere. She’s a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati. She’s an Assistant Professor of creative writing at the University of Louisville and serves as Faculty Editor of Miracle Monocle. She is the founder of the UofL PubLab.