Sarah Shotland is the author ofthe novel Junkette (2014 White Gorilla Press), and thenonfiction project Abolition is Everything. Herwriting for the stage has been performed in theaters nationally andinternationally. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Ploughshares,North American Review, The Iowa Review, CreativeNonfiction, Baltimore Review and elsewhere. She isthe recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of theArts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Heinz Endowments, PittsburghFoundation, and more. She is the recipient of a 2025 Madeleine L'Engle ResearchFellowship from Smith College, where she is using the special collectionsarchives to weave archival research into her fiction. She is currently theProgram Director for Madwomen in the Attic, and Chair of the Department of theHumanities at Carlow University. 

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