Sarah Viren

Sarah Viren is an American essayist best known for her 2018 essay collection Mine.

Career
In 2016, Viren won the Riverteeth Book Prize which offered publication of her essay collection Mine.

Mine was published in 2018 and was longlisted at the 31st Annual Lammy Finalists in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography category and longlisted for the 2018 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

In 2020, The New York Times published a personal essay by Viren in which she revealed that she and her wife, Marta, both academics, were targeted with false accusations that they had sexually assaulted former students, accusations perpetuated by an unnamed academic whose harassment was based on professional jealousy. The essay was also featured on an episode of The New York Times' popular podcast The Daily. It was a finalist for a National Magazine Award in feature writing in 2021.

Viren works as an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Arizona State University. She's a contributing writing for The New York Times Magazine.

Her 2023 memoir To Name the Bigger Lie was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.

Viren created a miniseries called "The Inbox" for the expirimental podcast The 11th.

Personal life
Viren is married to fellow academic Marta Tecedor.

Works

 * MINE: Essays (2018). University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826359544.
 * To Name the Bigger Lie (2023). Scribner. ISBN 9781982166595.