Sarah Elaine Smith

Instructor & Writer
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Sarah Elaine Smith was born and raised in Greene County, Pennsylvania. She has studied at the Michener Center for Writers, UT-Austin (MFA, poetry); the Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA, fiction); and Carnegie Mellon University. Her work has received support from the MacDowell Colony and the Rona Jaffe Wallace Foundation.

Smith is the author of the novel Marilou Is Everywhere (Riverhead Books, 2019), as well as the poetry collection I Live in a Hut, 2011. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she teaches Here Be Monsters, an online novel-writing and creativity workshop.

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Cover Photo: In this illustrated gif, we see painted hands holding up a playing card, as if presenting a magic trick. The card is pink; we're looking at the back of it and it shows the happy/sad theater masks. The tears on the sad face and the eyes on the happy face match the blue nail polish on the hand. Stars twinkle in the background.
Help! My Jealousy Over Other Writers’ Success is Destroying Me

In our first Tarot + Craft column, Sarah Elaine Smith gives advice to a bitter writer

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Sarah Elaine Smith
Apr 12, 2021
Don’t Write Alone | Columns