Sarah Viren is the author of the essay collection MINE, winner of the River Teeth Book Prize, named one of LitHub’s favorite books of 2018, and longlisted for the Pen/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. A graduate of the University of Iowa’s MFA program in Nonfiction, she’s an assistant professor at Arizona State University and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology The Great American Essay.