About me
SARAH SHOTLAND is the author of the novel Junkette, and the nonfiction project Abolition is Everything. Her writing for the stage has been performed in theaters nationally and internationally. Sarah co-founded Words Without Walls in 2009, which brought creative writing workshops to jails, prisons, and drug treatment facilities in Pittsburgh for 13 years. Her writing about that work has been published in The Iowa Review, Creative Nonfiction, Baltimore Review, and Ploughshares. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh Foundation, SFAI Equal Justice Initiative, Lighthouse Literary Center, and a 2023 Special Collections research fellowship from Smith College. In 2022, she joined the faculty at Carlow University where she directs the Madwomen in the Attic.
