Sarah Fay’s writing appears in The New York Times, TIME, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Bookforum, The American Scholar, BOMB, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s, The Believer, and The Paris Review, where she served as an advisory editor. She is the recipient of the Hopwood Award for Literature, as well as grants and fellowships from Yaddo, the Mellon Foundation, the Center for Book Arts, the Poetry Center of Chicago, the Puffin Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and MacDowell, among others. She’s an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University and on the faculty of DePaul University.
She's the founder of Pathological: The Movement, a public awareness campaign devoted to making people aware of the unreliability and invalidity of DSM diagnoses and the dangers of identifying with an unproven mental illness.
