Sarah Wang is the author of New Skin (May 2026). She has written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the London Review of Books, The Nation, n+1, Harper's Bazaar, McSweeney's, The New Republic, BOMB, The Believer, Pioneer Works, Lux Magazine, American Short Fiction, Story Magazine, and other publications. She teaches creative writing at Barnard College.
She has been a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, a PEN America Writing for Justice Fellow, a Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop Fellow, a Tin House Scholar, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar, a Kundiman Mentorship Fellow, an Asian American Writers' Workshop Witness Program Fellow, a Ragdale Neilson Fellow, and a Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Frances Andrews Scholar. She has received support from Plympton, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and The Poetry Project.
She is the winner of a Barbara Deming Award, a NYSCA/NYFA Nonfiction Fellowship award, and a Nelson Algren prize. She has been awarded residencies from Hawthornden Castle, Hedgebrook, Monson Arts, Wildacres, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Willapa Bay Air, Ragdale, I-Park, Convent Arts, Marble House, and was an Edith Wharton-Straw Dog Writers Guild Writer-in-Residence.
At MacDowell, Wang finished a draft of her novel New Skin, which was published in the U.S. by Little, Brown and in the UK by Picador.
