Marin Sardy is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia (Pantheon 2019). Her essays have appeared in Tin House, Guernica, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Missouri Review, and many other journals, as well as in two award-winning photography books—Landscape Dreams (2012) and Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby (2009). Her essays have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and three times listed as “notable” in the Best American series. Sardy has been awarded fellowships by Hawthornden Castle, Catwalk Institute, the Museum of Motherhood, and the Hertog Foundation. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and teaches memoir and personal essay writing for Authors Publish and Pace University. She is currently at work on her second book.
Sardy reflects on her influences in this interview. Follow her on Instagram.