Sara Marchant
Sara Marchant received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of California, Riverside/Palm Desert. She is the author of The Driveway Has Two Sides, published by Fairlight Books. Her memoir, Proof of Loss, was published by Otis Books. Her new novel Becoming Delilah was published in August 2023 and her essay "Haunted" was a Notable Mention in Best American Essays and Nonfiction 2021. Sara is a founding editor of the literary magazine Writers Resist.
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Haunted
The neighbor children are stark naked in their wading pool, watching the wildfire burn. Today’s fire, in our high desert Southern California community, is the fourth in two weeks. There will be another fire tomorrow, and another the night after, before they abruptly stop, but we don’t know that yet. The neighbor children, and I, […]
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The Agency of the Dead
Sara Marchant on pandemic neighbors, grief, and the ghosts from her childhood.