Sarah Minor is the author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press 2020), winner of the 2020 Big Other Nonfiction Book Award and The Persistence of the Bonyleg: Annotated from Essay Press. She is the recipient of the Barthelme Prize for Short Prose, an Individual Research Grant from the American-Scandinavian Foundation, an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council, and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts, and the Kenyon Writers' Workshop. Her essays have been collected in places like Best American Experimental Writing, Advanced Creative Nonfiction, and A Harp in the Stars. Minor holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from Ohio University. She currently teaches as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program.