Sarah Blake is an American writer based in Washington D.C. Her debut novel Grange House, set in Victorian era Maine, was published in 2001. Her second, The Postmistress, a story set in Second World War Massachusetts and London, was published in 2010. Blake taught school and college-level English in Colorado and New York for several years and has taught fiction workshops at institutions including the University of Maryland and George Washington University. The Postmistress received a favorable review from The New York Times, which compared it to Kathryn Stockett's The Help. She is married to poet Joshua Weiner.
Discipline:
Literature
Sarah Blake
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Washington, D.C.
MacDowell Fellowships: 1993, 1998
Studios
Wood
Sarah Blake worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…