Sarah Dillard (she/her) is the World Voices Festival and Literary Programs manager 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
Manager, World Voices Festival & Literary Programs
Articles by Sarah Dillard
Girl Gangs, Found Families, and Creating Kinship Outside of the Mainstream
Community is a key form of empowerment that disenfranchised people can attain.
Humor for Dark Times | The PEN Ten Interview with Katie Yee
The way the book deals with time was my attempt to mimic the experience of free-falling through grief.
Racial Healing as a ‘Reawakening of Our Moral Imaginations’
Writing communally helped me to thrive more in my writing process because it was a reciprocal process.
