Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist.​ 

 

She's the author of Carousel: An Essay on Seeing from Yale University Press (2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020), winner of the Big Other Award, and the chapbook The Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press, 2016). 

 

Minor's essays and visual poems have been collected in places like Best American Experimental Writing, A Harp in the Stars, and Malleable and True. She is the recipient of a Research Fellowship to Iceland from the American Scandinavian Foundation, an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and the Barthelme Prize. Minor's immersive text installations have been exhibited at the Tucson History Center, the Trissolini Gallery at Ohio University, the Jacob Lawrence Gallery at the University of Washington, Bothell, and are forthcoming at Davidson College.

 

Minor curates the Video Essay and Cinepoetry section at Brink Magazine. She holds a PhD from Ohio University, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction MFA Program.

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In addition to her writing practice, Minor is one half of the collaborative duo Haag Cykell—an ongoing performance series with the artist Johanna Winters that explores modes of storytelling through shadow theater and language.