Sarah Fuchs taught middle and high school English and humanities for 19 years in Oakland, Accra, Kampala, Dar es Salaam, and Lomé, Togo and co-founded The School for Social Justice and Community Development in Oakland, CA. A recent graduate of the NYU Writers Workshop in Paris, she is the 2016-2017 Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been awarded fellowships and scholarships from the MacDowell, Aspen Words Emerging Writers, Tin House Writer’s Workshop, and Writing by Writers Tamales Bay.
While at MacDowell, she worked on her first novel, Safari Njema, which explores negotiations of race, gender, and power in relationships arising from Zanzibar’s sex tourism industry.
