A person with long, curly hair poses for a portrait against a neutral background. They are wearing a patterned blouse, layered necklaces, and have a calm expression.

Sarah Dillard

Manager, World Voices Festival & Literary Programs

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.


Articles by Sarah Dillard

Writing as Craft
Thursday January 23

Alishia McCullough | The PEN Ten Interview

I was intentional about not just stating a problem, but also offering a pathway to begin to clear out all of the trauma that we have experienced that keeps us disconnected from our bodies and in a consistent imbalance relationship with food.

Writing as Craft
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.

Writing as Craft
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.