Sarah Gouda
Sarah Gouda is an Egyptian-American fiction writer and speechwriter originally from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in Shenandoah, Epiphany, and Barrelhouse. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College, where she was a Truman Capote fellow. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son, where she currently serves as Mayor Mamdani’s Deputy Director of Speechwriting. She is at work on her first novel.
Reading List
Merge in One Thousand Feet
The next week, Leila came prepared. Most of her life, she had failed to find a vein from which conversation flowed with her father. How embarrassing, she kept thinking, that all this time she just had to come up with the right questions to ask.