Sarah Manguso

Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American poet and prose writer.

Life
Manguso was born in Massachusetts in 1974.

She received her B.A. from Harvard University and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute and in the graduate program at The New School, and currently teaches in the graduate program at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn.

Her poems and prose have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The New Republic, and The Paris Review, and twice in the Best American Poetry series. She was the Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton in 2003–2004, and has been awarded fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony, and a Pushcart Prize.

Recognition
In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008) named a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Awards

 * 2012: 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship
 * 2011: Wellcome Trust Book Prize, shortlist, The Two Kinds of Decay

Poetry

 * The Captain Lands in Paradise. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2002.
 * Siste Viator. Four Way Books, 2006.

Prose

 * Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape. McSweeney's Books, 2007.
 * The Two Kinds of Decay. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.