Sarah Gerard is an American writer of fiction, essays, and nonfiction. She is best known for Binary Star (2015) and Sunshine State (2017). Her honours include finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize and the Lambda Literary Dr James Duggins Prize.
Sarah Gerard grew up in Florida. She later earned an MFA from The New School. The author has also studied criminal justice at the University of Colorado Denver, focusing on gender-based violence. She works as a private investigator in Denver.
Her essays, stories and interviews have since appeared in publications such as The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, The Believer, Vice and Electric Literature. Several anthologies with a Florida focus also feature her work.
Binary Star marked her first novel. Discussing its form, Gerard said, “I wanted instead to put the story entirely inside the protagonist’s point of view.” She also noted, “I kind of wanted to explode that form and speak to my own history.” The book became a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize.
Sunshine State followed as an essay collection. It was named a New York Times Critics’ and an NPR Book of the Year. The collection was also a finalist for the Southern Book Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. The author later published True Love, which continued her interest in relationships and desire for love.
Her range extends beyond fiction and essays. Gerard coauthored the art book Recycle. She has also published the chapbook The Butter House, which deepens themes first explored in earlier work.
A book of investigative journalism broadened her scope. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable (2024) blends reporting with memoir. Reflecting on the project, she said, “I wanted to keep knowing her, and this felt like a way to continue getting to know her.”
Photo by Frankie Marin
Sarah Gerard grew up in Florida. She later earned an MFA from The New School. The author has also studied criminal justice at the University of Colorado Denver, focusing on gender-based violence. She works as a private investigator in Denver.
Her essays, stories and interviews have since appeared in publications such as The New York Times, T Magazine, Granta, McSweeney's, The Believer, Vice and Electric Literature. Several anthologies with a Florida focus also feature her work.
Binary Star marked her first novel. Discussing its form, Gerard said, “I wanted instead to put the story entirely inside the protagonist’s point of view.” She also noted, “I kind of wanted to explode that form and speak to my own history.” The book became a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize.
Sunshine State followed as an essay collection. It was named a New York Times Critics’ and an NPR Book of the Year. The collection was also a finalist for the Southern Book Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. The author later published True Love, which continued her interest in relationships and desire for love.
Her range extends beyond fiction and essays. Gerard coauthored the art book Recycle. She has also published the chapbook The Butter House, which deepens themes first explored in earlier work.
A book of investigative journalism broadened her scope. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable (2024) blends reporting with memoir. Reflecting on the project, she said, “I wanted to keep knowing her, and this felt like a way to continue getting to know her.”
Photo by Frankie Marin
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