2026 State of the Art Prize, Idaho
2026 State of the Art Prize, Idaho
Sarah Sentilles
Sarah Sentilles
Sarah Sentilles is the author of 5 books, including Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 PEN-America Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Idaho Book of the Year. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Yale and master’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard.
Literary Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Literature
2026
About Sarah Sentilles
Hailey, ID
Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, and author of many books, including Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 PEN-America Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her most recent book, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, was published by Random House and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Idaho Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among other publications. She’s had residencies at Hedgebrook and Yaddo. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Yale and master’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She is the co-founder of the Alliance of Idaho, which works to protect the human rights of immigrants. She has taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, California State University Channel Islands, and Willamette University, where she was the Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor. She teaches writing workshops to help support artists’ creativity.
Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, and author of many books, including Draw Your Weapons, which won the 2018 PEN-America Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her most recent book, Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours, was published by Random House and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Idaho Book of the Year. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among other publications. She’s had residencies at Hedgebrook and Yaddo. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Yale and master’s and doctoral degrees at Harvard. She is the co-founder of the Alliance of Idaho, which works to protect the human rights of immigrants. She has taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, California State University Channel Islands, and Willamette University, where she was the Mark and Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Visiting Professor. She teaches writing workshops to help support artists’ creativity.