Sarah Wang

Sarah Wang is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, editor, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Barnard. She is the author of the novel New Skin (Little, Brown 2026). Her writing across genres focuses on mass incarceration, psychoanalysis, surveillance, colonized bodies, contemporary art, class, race, and feminism. Her fiction, cultural criticism, book reviews, essays, and profiles have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Nation, The New Republic, Harper's Bazaar, n+1, BOMB, The Los Angeles Review of Books, American Short Fiction, The Believer, McSweeneys, Joyland, Catapult, semiotext(e)’s Animal Shelter, The Shanghai Literary Review, Lux Magazine, The Southern Review, Performa Magazine, The Poetry Project’s The Recluse, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, and The Last Newspaper at the New Museum, among other publications. 

She has been awarded fellowships from PEN America, the Center for Fiction, MacDowell, NYSCA/NYFA, Ragdale, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and Kundiman. She is a a Kenyon Review Writers Workshop Nancy Zafris Scholar, a Tin House Scholar, a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar, a Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference Frances Andrews Scholar, and the winner of a Nelson Algren prize for fiction. She has received support from Hawthornden Castle, Hedgebrook, Marble Hill, Edith Wharton/Straw Dog Writers Guild, Monson Arts, Wildacres, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, I-Park, Plympton, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, Willapa Bay Air, and The Poetry Project.

As an editor, she has worked with the Museum of Modern Art, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, The New Museum, Musee d'art Contemporain de Lyon, semiotext(e), Sternberg Press, Independent Curators International, Blum & Poe, and other nonprofits, museums, and galleries.