Sarah M. Broom is a trained journalist and author. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Oxford American, and elsewhere. At MacDowell in 2012, Broom wrote the heart of her first book, The Yellow House, and in 2015, she made crucial revisions it. The book went on to win a 2019 National Book Award in nonfiction. She lives between New Orleans and New York with her partner, filmmaker, Dee Rees.
She received her undergraduate degree in anthropology and mass communications from the University of North Texas before earning a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her writing career as a newspaper journalist working in Rhode Island, New Orleans, and Hong Kong (for TIME Asia). She served as an editor at O, The Oprah Magazine for several years. In the years following, she worked extensively in the nonprofit word, including as executive director of the global nonprofit, Village Health Works, which has offices in Burundi and New York.
