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  <name><![CDATA[Sarah Manguso]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Sarah Manguso (b. 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir &lt;i&gt;The Two Kinds of Decay&lt;/i&gt; (2008), was reviewed by the &lt;i&gt;New York Times Sunday Book Review&lt;/i&gt; and named a 2008 &quot;Best Nonfiction Book of the Year&quot; by the &lt;i&gt;San Francisco Chronicle.&lt;/i&gt;

Her poems and prose have appeared in &lt;i&gt;The American Poetry Review, The Believer, Boston Review, The London Review of Books, McSweeney’s, The New Republic&lt;/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Paris Review&lt;/i&gt;, and twice in the &lt;i&gt;Best American Poetry&lt;/i&gt; series. She was the Hodder Fellow in Poetry at Princeton in 2003–2004, and has been awarded fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, Yaddo, and MacDowell Colony, and a Pushcart Prize.

She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer's Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute and in the graduate program at the New School, and currently teaches in the graduate program at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn.
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  <title><![CDATA[One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, and Minor Robberies]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Captain Lands in Paradise: Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Siste Viator]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books]]></title>
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