Susan Marsh, winner of the 2014-15 Sarton Award for her contemporary novel, War Creek, has felt all her life that the beautiful and wild world we inhabit is of great […]
Meet Jill Kandel
Author:Jill Kandel, winner of the 2014-15 Sarton Memoir Award for her book, So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village, believes in the power of words and the power […]
Meet Yelizaveta P. Renfro
Author:Yelizaveta P. Renfro is the 2014 Sarton Award winner for Xylotheque, a collection of nine very personal and revealing essays that combine memoir and nature writing. She is also the […]
Meet Tanya Ward Goodman
Author: Lisa Shirah-HiersTanya Ward Goodman is the 2013 Sarton Award winner for Leaving Tinkertown, her deeply moving memoir chronicling her return home to the roadside museum, “Tinkertown,” where she grew up, in […]
Meet Monica Wood
Author:Monica Wood is the author of When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine, a New England bestseller, #1 bestseller in Maine, Oprah magazine summer-reading pick, and winner of the […]
Meet Jamie Patterson
Author:Jamie Patterson has been awarded second place in the Sarton Women’s Memoir competition for her book Lost Edens: A True Story (Beaver’s Pond Press, 2011). A memoir of a failed marriage and abandoned dreams, Lost Edens helps […]







