Occupation Novelist, writer Name Sarah Gerard Nationality American Role Author | Genre Fiction Books Binary Star Notable works Binary Star | |
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binary star author sarah gerard on how writing saved her from anorexia addiction
Sarah Gerard is an American author and novelist. She recently worked for Bomb Magazine. She is the author of a novel, Binary Star, published in 2015 by Two Dollar Radio. The novel received positive reviews. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, and Joyland. Gerard also writes a monthly column for Penguin Random House online journal Hazlitt.
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- binary star author sarah gerard on how writing saved her from anorexia addiction
- Writing career
- Personal life
- References
Gerard attended the New School, where she received an MFA. She is also the daughter of Florida politician Pat Gerard.
Writing career
Sarah Gerard is the author of one novel, Binary Star ( 2015), as well as two chapbooks, most recently BFF (published in 2015). An essay collection, entitled Sunshine State, is forthcoming from Harper Perennial. Her short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine‘s “The Cut”, The Paris Review Daily, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Bookforum, Joyland, Vice, BOMB Magazine, and other publications, as well as anthologies for Joyland and The Saturday Evening Post. She also writes a monthly column on artists’ notebooks for Hazlitt.
Personal life
Gerard struggled with anorexia and bulimia while she attended Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. She discusses this in her essay From Hunger in The New York Times. In 2007, she jumped out of a moving train and ended up in the hospital, which is also discussed in the New York Times essay.