Sarah Viren

Sarah Viren
Notable works	Mine (2018), To Name the Bigger Lie (2023)
Spouse	Marta Tecedor
Website
sarahviren.com

Sarah Viren is an American essayist best known for her 2018 essay collection Mine.

Career

In 2016, Viren won the Riverteeth Book Prize which offered publication of her essay collection Mine. ^[1]

Mine was published in 2018 and was longlisted at the 31st Annual Lammy Finalists in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography category and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. ^[2]

In 2020, The New York Times published a personal essay by Viren in which she described that she and her wife, Marta, both academics, were subjects of complaints that they had sexually assaulted students, allegations which Viren claimed to be false; according to Viren, the complaints were made by an academic whom she was prevented from publicly naming per conditions of a lawsuit settlement, and were based on professional jealousy. ^[3] The essay was also featured on an episode of The New York Times ' popular podcast The Daily . It was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in feature writing in 2021. ^[4]

Viren works as an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Arizona State University. ^[5] She's a contributing writing for The New York Times Magazine . ^[6]

Her 2023 memoir To Name the Bigger Lie was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography. ^[7]

Viren created a miniseries called "The Inbox" for the experimental podcast The 11th . ^[8]

Personal life

Viren is married to fellow academic Marta Tecedor.

Works

• MINE: Essays (2018). University of New Mexico Press. ISBN   9780826359544.
• To Name the Bigger Lie (2023). Scribner. ISBN   9781982166595. ^{[9] [10]}

References

1. "2016 - Mine by Sarah Viren" . Retrieved 21 June 2021.
2. "31st Annual Lammy Finalists". www.lambdaliterary.org. 7 March 2019.
3. Viren, Sarah (18 March 2020). "The Accusation". The New York Times . Retrieved 21 June 2021.
4. "NWP Alum Sarah Viren Named Finalist for National Magazine Award for Feature Writing". University of Iowa . Retrieved 2021-08-07.
5. "Sarah Viren" . Retrieved 21 June 2021.
6. "The New York Times Magazine - Masthead". The New York Times . 2011-03-01. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-08-07.
7. "Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". them. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
8. "'The 11th' is a monthly, mystery box podcast". Podsauce. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
9. Dederer, Claire (2023-06-11). "When Truth No Longer Counts, How Does a Memoirist Tell Her Story?" . The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2023-07-11.
10. Martin, Kristen (June 14, 2023). "'To Name the Bigger Lie' is an investigation of the nature of truth". NPR.