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Sasha Bonét

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Houston, The United States

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Sasha Bonét is a writer, critic, and editor living in New York City.

Sasha’s debut book The Waterbearers is a sweeping intergenerational memoir and cultural history on Black motherhood in America. Forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf September 16, 2025.

Her criticism and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, Aperture, Harper's Bazaar, New York Magazine, Vogue, and BOMB among other publications. Sasha is the nonfiction editor at Apogee Journal.

She teaches nonfiction writing at Columbia’s School of the Arts and Barnard College.

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The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

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