Sarah Smarsh Author

Sarah Smarsh has covered socioeconomic class, politics, and public policy for  The Guardian, The New York Times, NewYorker.com, Harpers.org, The Texas Observer, and many others. She recently was a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. A former professor of nonfiction writing, Smarsh is a frequent speaker on economic inequality and related media narratives. She lives in Kansas.  Heartland  is her first book.