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Sara received a Support for Artists grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support her creative work
Sponsored by Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts, this award will fund the completion of Sara’s novel The Devil Is a Gentleman. Through New York State’s continued investment in arts and culture, NYSCA has awarded $82 million this year to 509 artists and 1,497 organizations across the state.
Sara is a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
The Invention of Love makes Independent Book Review’s "30 Indie Press Books You Might Have Missed from the Pandemic."
“This thrilling thirst for artistry is a common theme in the collection, and something that Schaff handles with great tenderness.”
Read Brenna McPeek’s review of The Invention of Love for Necessary Fiction.
“Thuy-Van Vu’s Art Points to the Story Beyond the subject” reprinted in diacritics.
Sara talks to DIYMFA’s Gabriela Pereira about writing workshop best practices, Sara’s experiences of the workshop as teacher & student, and writing The Invention of Love.
“Before the Cure” published in Catapult
New flash fiction about love, guilt, and medicine--before the age of penicillin.
“Deftly touching across a wide variety of themes centred on love, Schaff calls our attention to the unexpected ways love can show up in our lives. This was a superb collection…”
Read Elaine Mead’s review of The Invention of Love for The Book Slut.
Sara speaks with Ilana Masad of The other stories podcast about gatekeeping, rage, and sara’s story “the end of the workshop,” from the invention of love.
Listen to Sara talk about feeding her child graphic novels during the pandemic, on the micro podcast Without Books.
Tune in to Sara’s first ever podcast conversation on the Downtown Writers Jam. She and Brad King discuss Sara’s meandering path toward writing, with stops in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Colombia, and China. (Also: her kid’s obsession with dinosaurs.)
Learn about the life and work of Thuy-Van Vu, the artist behind “Insulation,” the painting on the cover of Sara’s The Invention of Love.
watch Sara in Conversation with nafissa thompson-spires, award-winning author of heads of the colored people.
Martha Stuit interviews Sara about The Invention of Love for Pulp.
“My husband’s second wife” published in Kenyon review online
Friendship, rivalry, adultery, and Tolstoy! Read it here.
A group of writers publishing during the coronavirus pandemic have come together to support each others’ books. Follow us on Instagram at @lockdown_literature. And head over to San Francisco’s amazing The Booksmith to read about and purchase our titles!
“west lake” published in the Missouri review
A short story about privilege, marital betrayal, and self-reliance, set in Hangzhou, China.
Sara’s second book, The Invention of Love, is slated for publication in June 2020!
“What We Leave” published in Yale Review Online
A brief essay about family, inherited trauma, and a pair of (almost) stolen jeans. Read it here.
“Everyone Gets It” Makes Joyland’s Most-Read List
“Everyone Gets It,” nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was Joyland Midwest’s most read story in 2018. Read it here.
Say Something Nice About Me is available now on Kindle, Nook, iPhone, and other electronic devices!
"The Invention of Love" published in MQR
Love, art, a near-death experience: read an excerpt.
Photo of the Day at North Country Public Radio
Sara's picture, "Ice 'Mushrooms' on the Kip Trail" is NCPR's Photo of the Day on January 23, 2018.
Sara Interviewed by Rachel Farrell in Michigan Quarterly Review
"It’s the tiny acts of treachery that speak volumes about our deepest fears and insecurities, and Sara Schaff uses this doctrine to great effect in her debut story collection, Say Something Nice About Me."