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Dr. Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Dr. Sarah Fawn Montgomery standing in front of a wooded background with short dark brown hair and wearing round black rim glasses and a pale yellow cable knit sweater
Associate Professor of English
Tillinghast Hall, Room 204

BA, California State Polytechnic University
MFA, California State University at Fresno
PhD, University of Nebraska at Lincoln

Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, which The Atlantic says, “Exemplifies a nuanced approach to life with mental illness” and The Paris Review describes as “The wakeup call that we need.” She is also the author of the essay collection Halfway from Home, winner of a Nautilus Book Award for lyric prose, the craft text Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice, the flash collection Abbreviate, and three poetry chapbooks. Fathom is forthcoming with the Propel Disability Poetry Book Series. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Nerve to Write, a magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers.

Area of Expertise

Creative Nonfiction Writing 
Poetry Writing 
Disability Studies 
Women’s and Gender Studies 
Literary Editing and Publishing