Meet Sarah K. Lenz

Sarah K Lenz grew up in central Nebraska. She is the author of the essay collection, What Will Outlast Me? (Unsolicited Press, 2023). Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, New Letters, Triquarterly, The Fourth River, The Texas Review, Pen Dust Radio, Crab Orchard Review, South Dakota Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been named Notable in Best American Essays three times. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Georgia College and State University, an MA in literature from Boise State University, and a BFA in fiction writing from the University of Nebraska, Omaha. She's the founder of the Writers’ Studio in Corpus Christi, a community-based literary arts organization. Sarah also serves as the prose editor for the Switchgrass Review. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she lives with her husband, son, three cats, and twelve typewriters.