Sarah Dillard (she/her) is the World Voices Festival and Literary Programs Coordinator at PEN America. She received her BA with honors in Literary Arts from Brown University and her MSW in social work from Columbia University. Before joining PEN, she worked at SAFELab developing and facilitating a technology program for formerly incarcerated youth. Her creative writing has been published in Five on the Fifth Magazine and her academic writing has been published in the Columbia Social Work Review and at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Sarah Dillard
Coordinator, World Voices Festival and Literary Programs
Articles by Sarah Dillard
Tuesday November 26
Maame Blue | The PEN Ten Interview
Writing this book was the perfect excuse to connect with the elders in my family; aunties, uncles, older cousins, and listen to their stories, to get a real sense of their experiences.
Thursday October 3
Forrest Gander | The PEN Ten Interview
The objective world isn’t as directly accessible as we might imagine, but is constructed on the basis of constraints on our perception and on our language.
Thursday September 5
Danzy Senna | The PEN Ten Interview
If you are missing the prevalence and importance of race in American life, then you are really missing a huge part of the world you are writing about. And it will shackle and limit the story you are trying to tell.