Sarah Van Arsdale is a writer based in New York City whose works include Grand Isle, published in 2012, Toward Amnesia and Blue. Blue was the 2002 winner of the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel, and was published by the University of Tennessee Press in 2003. Additionally, Sarah teaches in the MFA program at the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts and at NYU. She also serves on the board of the Ferro-Grumley Awards in Fiction and has received fellowships at the Playa, Ragdale Foundation, The Djerassi Center for the Arts, and the Jentel Center for the Arts.