Sara Batkie
Sara Batkie is the author of the story collection Better Times, which won the 2017 Prairie Schooner Prize and is published by University of Nebraska Press. She received her MFA from New York University. Stories of hers have been honored with a 2017 Pushcart Prize and a notable mention in the 2011 edition of The Best American Short Stories. She was born in Bellevue, Washington and grew up mostly in Iowa, but currently makes her home in Brooklyn.
Reading List
The Catastrophists
The first time Maude Lacey steps into traffic it’s an accident. Maude is thirty-two, with a complexion and frame that could only be described as cobwebby, and is, aside from the general stuffiness that affects everyone who lives in the city long enough, healthy. She is walking home from her job in a gallery downtown—where […]