Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is the author of Alice Sadie Celine (Simon Books, Simon & Schuster, November 28th, 2023). She is also the author of Red Riding Hood (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), a New York Times #1 bestseller that was published worldwide in thirty-eight editions and fifteen languages.
Sarah is the editor of The Artist's Library, featuring conversation with artists on their most beloved books, transcribed, and appearing monthly at Hauser & Wirth's Ursula magazine. The series launched in March 2021 with Anj Smith on Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory. She is publishing director of the Chicago Review of Books and associate editor of A Public Space.
She has been the recipient of residencies and scholarships from the Millay Colony of the Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Aspen Writers Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has spoken at SXSW, AWP, Brazil’s Biennale de Livros, One Story Summer Conference, and the Roxbury Writers Residency. Sarah's writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine and the Georgia Review, and she has written about Henni Alftan for KARMA Books and James Baldwin for the National Book Foundation.
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Literary Agents: Ellen Levine & Martha Wydysh Trident Media Group