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Sarah Hanson

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Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction

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Sarah Hanson is a poet with a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, the school that proudly prints “Where Fun Goes to Die” on t-shirts. She graduated from the school of No Fun, the academy of Childhood Trauma, and the higher education echelon of Domestic Abuse. She remains apprenticed to life and the universal curriculum of loss, joy, healing, redemption, and resurrection.

Her work has been featured in The HuffPost, The Literary Times, Sierra Nevada Review, Saranac Review, and Anti-Heroin Chic, among other literary magazines.

She lives in Minneapolis with her husband Jay; their three cats, Darwin, Waffles, and Princess Leia; and a codependent To Be Read book pile that will follow her into the afterlife.

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Conjuring the Hurricane

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The Places This Book Is Going

It’s been a little over a week since I gave my debut book, Conjuring the Hurricane, over to the world.

At the launch, you sold the local bookseller out of all 150 copies. You sold Amazon out of their first print run. It landed in the Top 10 New Releases in multiple categories, including Poetry by Women. Sixteen-year-old me is somewhere shaking me by the shoulders, asking if this is real.

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Mother-Daughter Murder Night

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Sarah made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Merge ISBNs on Book Editions topic " Thank you so much! This is the ISBN for the hardcover to display on the book page. Again, many thanks! ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1959694189 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-195969 ...more "
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