JOURNALISM
“Sarah Smarsh is one of America’s foremost writers on class.”
–Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of And Their Children After Them

Sarah’s reporting, commentary and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The New Yorker, Oprah Magazine, Harper’s, National Geographic, Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, Oxford American, The Cut, The Texas Observer, Pacific Standard, Guernica, On Being, The Baffler, McSweeney’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Believer, Aeon, Creative Nonfiction and many other publications. She is a frequent media commentator and has been a guest on PBS NewsHour, CNN, CNN International, Here and Now, On the Media, 1A, Katie Couric’s America Inside Out, Amanpour and Co., NPR’s Weekend Edition and many other national and international shows. A former writing professor, Sarah holds degrees in journalism and English from the University of Kansas, and a master of fine arts in nonfiction writing from Columbia University.

The New York Times
- What Growing Up on a Farm Taught Me About Humility
- Why the Defense of Abortion in Kansas Is So Powerful
- What to Do With Our Covid Rage
- Porches, Yards, Driveways, Parking Lots: Where the Neighborhood Is Now
- I Am Burning With Fury and Grief Over Elizabeth Warren. And I Am Not Alone
- Chronicling a Community, and a Country, in Economic Crisis
- Something Special Is Happening in Rural America
- Liberal Blind Spots Are Hiding the Truth About ‘Trump Country’
- Our Blind Spots Often Hide the Truth About America
- A Blue Wave in Kansas? Don’t Be So Surprised
- 24 Hours in America

The Guardian
- From Kansas, with love: like it or not, my home defies stereotypes
- No matter who wins the US election, here are reasons to be hopeful
- How is arguing with Trump voters working out for you?
- Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America (Excerpt from Heartland)
- The Working-Class Kid Who Became a Writer: How a Kansas Teacher Helped Change My Life
- How the American Left is Rediscovering Morality
- They Thought It Was Trump Country: Hell no
- Support All Kids Marching Today
- Working-Class Women Are Too Busy for Gender Theory–But They’re Still Feminists
- There’s No Such Thing As a Blue State or Red State
- Without Journalism, There Is No America
- Dangerous Idiots: How the Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-Class Americans
- Caught Between Greed and Religion

National Geographic

The Atlantic

Oxford American

Death, Sex and Money / WNYC Studios

The New Yorker

The Cut / New York Magazine

Pacific Standard

Longreads

Guernica

Columbia Journalism Review


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