Sarah is a journalist who has reported for the New York Times, Harper’s, the Guardian, and many other publications. Her first book, a memoir about growing up in central Kansas, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, the winner of the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize, and a best-books-of-the-year selection by President Barack Obama. Sarah’s next book, Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class, is available for pre-order and will be on shelves in September 2024. Sarah currently lives in rural Kansas and is at work on a book about the endangered tallgrass prairie ecosystem, which will be published by Scribner in 2026.