About Sarah Anne Johnson

Sarah is the author of The Very Telling, The Art of the Author Interview, and Conversations with American Women Writers. Her interviews appear in The Writer's Chronicle, Glimmertrain Stories, Provincetown Arts, and The Writer where she is a contributing editor. Her fiction has appeared in Other Voices, and she is the recipient of residencies in fiction from Jentel Artists' Residency Program and Vermont Studio Center. She has taught the Art of the Author Interview Workshop at Bennington College Writing Seminars MFA Program, Leseley University MFA Program, and at literary conferences nationwide. Currently, Sarah is working on a novel about a woman lighthouse keeper in 1843.

RESUME

BOOKS:

• The Very Telling, Conversations with American Writers (University Press of New England, 2006)
• The Art of the Author Interview (University Press of New England, 2005)
• Conversations with America Women Writers (University Press of New England, 2004)

FICTION:

• Jentel Artists' Residency in Fiction, 2005
• Vermont Studio Residency in Fiction, 2004
• Fall 2002, Other Voices, B asketball

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS:

• November 2006, The Writer,
• What's a Memoir Writer to Do?
• October 2006, The Writer,
• Stories Within Stories, An Interview with Margot Livesey
• August 2006, The Writer,
• Interview with Mary Yukari Waters
• July 2006, The Writer,
• How I Write: Ayelet Waldman
• June 2006, The Writer,
• 4 top editors-what turns them on --and off
• June 2006, The Writer,
• How I Write: Elizabeth McCracken
• October 2005, The Writer,
• How I Write: Amy Bloom
• September 2005, The Writer,
• How I Write: Bret Anthony Johnston
• September 2005, The Writer,
• How Writers Think About Money
• August 2005, The Writer,
• Building a Literary Life
• May 2005, The Writer,
• Writing for Children with Judy Blume, Nikki Grimes, Kate DiCamillo, David Elliot, Anita Riggio
• April 2005, The Writer's Chronicle
• Interview with Chang-rae Lee
• April 2005, The Writer
• How I Write: Augusten Burroughs
• March 2005, The Writer
• An interview with Marilynne Robinson
• February 2005, The Writer's Chronicle
• Interview with Edwige Danticat
• February 2005, Glimmertrain Stories
• An Interview with Ha Jin
• October 2004, The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Sarah Waters
• April 2004, The Writer
• An Interview with Edward P. Jones
• March 2004, The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Nora Okja Keller
• February 2004, The Writer
• An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• February 2004, The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Aimee Bender
• November 2003, The Writer,
• An Interview with l thi diem thy
• November 2003, Glimmertrain Stories,
• An Interview with Andrea Barrett
• October 2003, The Writer,
• Low Residency Writing Programs: A Sampling
• September 2003, The Writer's Chronicle
• An Interview with Ann Patchett
• June 2003, The Writer,
• An Interview with Donna Tartt
• March 2003, Cape Cod Voice,
• Marge Piercy Works Once Again in her Distinctive Poetic Palette
• December 2002, The Writer's Chronicle
• An Interview with Gish Jen
• November, 2002, The Writer,
• An Interview with Sena Jeter Naslund
• October, 2002, The Writer's Chronicle,
• Public Life, Private Poetry: An Interview with Jason Shinder
• September, 2002, The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• June 2002, The Writer,
• An Interview with Lynn Freed
• June 2002, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips
• April, 2002, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Amy Bloom
• November, 2001, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Maria Flook            
• September, 2001, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Sue Miller
• May, 2001, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Elizabeth Cox
• August, 2000, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Elizabeth McCracken
• February 2000, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Jill McCorkle
• October 1999, AWP's The Writer's Chronicle,
• An Interview with Lynn Freed

TEACHING HIGHLIGHTS:

•  Lesley College MFA Program, Cambridge, MA. ongoing.

•  Bennington College Writing Seminars, 2003-2004

•  Cape Cod Writer's Conference, Centerville, MA. August 2003.

•  Castle Hill Center for the Arts, Truro, MA. July 21 2003.

OTHER:

• Association of Personal Historians Conference Keynote Speaker, November 2005
• Books and the World, author interviews broadcast on local cable television.  
• Live interview with Michael Cunningham, September 5, 2004
• Live interview with l thi diem thuy, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, July 26, 2004
• The Art of the Author Interview panel at AWP Writer's Conference in Chicago, IL, March 2004.
• Web site www.sarahannejohnson.com - an ongoing resource listing upcoming engagements, publications, contact and booking information, and other literary links of interest.
• Program Coordinator for the YMCA National Writer's Voice Program,
• September 2001 June 2003.
• Project Coordinator for the YMCA of the USA Arts & Humanities,
• September 2001 June 2003

EDUCATION:

• Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, MFA in Creative Writing and Literature, June, 2000
• University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA., BS in Computer Science, Minor in English, 1987