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Sari Botton

Instructor: Creative Nonfiction Writing: Writing About Others

Sari Botton is the author of the memoir in essays, And You May Find Yourself...Confessions of a Late-Blooming Gen-X Weirdo. She is a contributing editor and columnist at Catapult, the former Essays Editor for Longreads, and a former columnist for the Rumpus, where she interviewed established and new writers from Cheryl Strayed to Samantha Irby. 

Sari edited the New York Times-bestselling Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York and Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York. Her work has appeared in the New York TimesNew York Magazine, the Village VoiceHarper's BazaarMarie ClaireMore, and the Rumpus, plus other publications and anthologies. 

In addition to teaching foundational courses in our MFA, Sari teaches at Catapult and Kingston Writers' Studio. She is the publisher and editor of three Substack publications: Oldster MagazineMemoir Monday, and Adventures in Journalism.


Please visit the MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing program page to learn about the curriculum, faculty, program options, and more.