Sarah LaBrie is a TV writer and the author of No One Gets to Fall Apart (Harper, 2024), a New York Times Editors' Pick and Notable Book of 2024, a finalist for the Writers League of Texas book award, and was named a best memoir of the year by NPR, Elle, and Esquire. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, Yaddo, Sewanee, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has written on television series including Minx (HBO Max and Starz), Blindspotting (Starz), Made for Love (HBO Max), and Love, Victor (Hulu). Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. In 2025 she received an O. Henry award and a Pushcart special mention for her short story, "Tender," published in Electric Literature. Her libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Apollo Theater.
She earned her B.A. from Brown University in Comparative Literature and Literary Arts and an M.F.A. from New York University as a Writers in the Schools Fellow. She grew up in Houston and lives in Los Angeles. She teaches in the low-residency M.F.A. of the Americas program at Stetson University and is at work on a book about people, animals and technology.
At MacDowell, LaBrie drafted the first fifty pages of her second book, a hybrid memoir about the connection between human and animal welfare and her years spent volunteering with Los Angeles Animal Services.
Portrait by Nina Subin
