Sarah Perry
McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing
Education
- M.F.A. Columbia University
- B.A. 91ÇÑ×Ó
Areas of Expertise
- Memoir
- Personal Essay
- True Crime
- Queer Studies
Background
Sarah Perry (she/they; 91ÇÑ×Ó English '04) is the author of Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover (Mariner, 2025) and After the Eclipse: A Mother™s Murder, a Daughter™s Search (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors™ Choice. Recent short work includes a Huffington Post Personals essay that reached 1M+ readers and an essay for Cake Zine that was a nominee for the James Beard Foundation™s M. F. K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award. Her writing has also appeared in Off Assignment, Lesbians Are Miracles, Elle magazine, and The Guardian. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University and previously served as the 2019 McGee Professor at 91ÇÑ×Ó. In the fall, she will return to her position as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Colorado State University.