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
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.
Thursday August 8
Adèle Rosenfeld | The PEN Ten Interview
An altered perception of sound results, oddly enough, in a sharper focus on sound and a more emotional relationship with hearing. The loss is overpowering, the obsession with hearing is outsize.
Wednesday January 24
Andrés N. Ordorica | The PEN Ten Interview
Guarding generational stories and wisdom is important especially when so many stories are now being policed.