Sarah Braunstein

Title

Associate Professor of English (Creative Writing)

Department

English

Information

Address

8800 Mayflower Hill Waterville, Maine 04901-8853

Current Courses

CRS	Title	Sec
EN178	Language, Thought, and Writing: Introduction to Creative Writing	A
EN237	Postcolonial Pastoral: Writing, Literature, and Ecology in the Himalayas	A
EN278	Fiction Writing I	A
EN278	Fiction Writing I	B
EN378	Fiction Writing II: Writing the Present Moment	A

Sarah Braunstein is the author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W.W. Norton), an Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick of the Month, winner of the 2012 Maine Book Award for Fiction and finalist for First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. A new novel is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in 2023, followed by a collection of short stories. Sarah’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, AGNI, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review, The Sun, and in other publications. She has been the recipient of a “5 Under 35” fiction award from the National Book Foundation and a Rona Jaffe Writers Award. She has a BA from Mount Holyoke College, MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and MSW from Smith College School for Social Work, where she studied psychodynamic theory and practice.

Visit her website here.

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