About

Sarah Braunstein is a writer and teacher based in Maine.
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Sarah Braunstein is the author of two novels—The Sweet Relief of Missing Children and Bad Animals —and a story collection (coming June 2026), Baby in a Box. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New Yorker, Harvard Review,Joyland, Playboy, Ploughshares, AGNI, among other publications. She has received a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 prize and the Maine Literary Award. She lives in Maine and teaches at Colby College.

Education

BA
Mount Holyoke College
MFA
Iowa Writers’ Workshop
MSW
Smith College School for Social Work