Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry (she/they) teaches in the MFA program at Colorado State University, specializing in memoir and personal essay. She is the author of Sweet Nothings: Confessions of a Candy Lover (Mariner/HarperCollins, February 2025) and After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), which was named a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Perry’s essays have appeared in the Huffington Post, Cake Zine, The Guardian, Elle magazine, and Off Assignment. Perry holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University, has taught in the graduate programs at Columbia and the University of North Texas, and was the 2019 McGee Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Davidson College. She is at work on two book manuscripts: a sequel memoir exploring the complicated relationship between trauma and sexuality, titled The Book of Regrets; and a work of personal true crime criticism in which she tangles with Truman Capote’s legacy, called Two Daughters Were Away.