Sara Majka

Sara Majka is a writer living on Providence’s west side. Her work has appeared in such journals as A Public Space and Granta. Her first book—a collection of stories—was published by Graywolf/A Public Space in 2016 and was a New York Times Notable Book. Her second book, a novel titled Small Homes, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press.

Majka earned graduate degrees from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Bennington College and was a fiction fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Academic areas of interest include the uncanny in fiction, visualizing fiction, the short story form, and writing that blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction. Other interests include working with multilingual students and with students who are incorporating writing in their art. She is currently RISD’s Center for Arts & Language multilingual learning faculty fellow.