Sarah is a writer, academic, and overall lover of stories. She was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, Zimbabwe, and England. Her best-selling debut novel, In Dependence, was required reading in a number of high schools and universities around the world, while her second novel, Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun, was shortlisted for the UK’s Goldsmith Prize and the California Book Award. Her non fiction includes personal essays and intimate profiles of people she meets from Mrs. Harris to Toni Morrison. Sarah was founding books editor of Ozy Books and a long-time lecturer at San Francisco State University. Sarah currently serves as board director for the women’s writers residency, Hedgebrook. In residence at MacDowell, she she worked on a profile piece of the Zimbabwean human rights activist Pastor Evan Mawawire and learned that her essay "On Meeting Toni Morrison" was selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays of 2018 and shortlisted for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards.
Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Studios
Irving Fine
Sarah Ladipo Manyika worked in the Irving Fine studio.
Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s. The simple interior of the studio…