Marin Sardy

Marin Sardy is the author of the memoir The Edge of Every Day (2019) and co-creator of the text-and-image collaboration Psychic Telephone. Sardy’s essays have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, the Missouri Review, and many other journals, as well as in two award-winning photography books. She is the winner of the 2025 Mathiasen Prose Award and her work has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes, as well as twice listed as Notable in the Best American Essays. She teaches memoir and personal essay writing for Authors Publish and Writing Workshops.

Upcoming Programs by Marin Sardy

A LIttle Lighting: Writing Flash Nonfiction

October 4 - 10, 2026

In this generative writing course, we’ll delve into the pleasure and potency of flash nonfiction. Defined as stand-alone nonfiction prose of less than 1000 words, flash nonfiction is an emerging form that seeks to capture life’s richness in a small space. It aligns in some ways with flash fiction and prose poetry, but it is […]