MEDIA APPEARANCES AND INTERVIEWS

“‘Ordinary Insanity’: Sarah Menkedick Examines Motherhood And The Anxiety Epidemic,” Texas Public Radio, September 4th, 2020.

“How the Coronavirus Epidemic is making some people less anxious,” NPR’s Morning Edition, April 23rd, 2020.

Good Morning America, April 7th, 2020.

“Pittsburgh-based Author Tackles Little-Recognized Crisis of Fear and Anxiety.” WESA Pittsburgh, April 2020.

“A Silent Epidemic: PW Talks with Sarah Menkedick.” Publisher’s Weekly, January 2020.

Longform Podcast #242: Sarah Menkedick. Longform Podcast. April 2017.

"Travel Writers: Sarah Menkedick." Rolf Potts' Vagabonding. October 2015.

"Interview: Vela Magazine Founder Sarah Menkedick on Women Writers and Sustainable Publishing." Longreads. October 2014.

WRITING GRANTS AND AWARDS

Creative Nonfiction Writing Fellow, Creative Nonfiction, Pittsburgh, PA, 2019.

Longlisted for PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm, 2018.

Fulbright Fellow, Arts, Creative Writing, U.S. Department of State/COMEXUS, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2015-2016.

Notable, The Best American Essays 2017, “The Making of a Mexican-American Dream.”

Notable, The Best American Essays 2016, "Living on the Hyphen."

Notable, The Best American Essays 2014, "Homing Instincts." 

Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership, Honors Convocation, University of Pittsburgh, February 2013.

Ohioana Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant for writers under 30, October 2012.

REVIEWS OF ORDINARY INSANITY

“Mothers Under Pressure,” the New York Review of Books, June 2022.

“Is Fear the Last Taboo of American Motherhood?” the New York Times Book Review, April 2020.

Library Journal (starred review), March 2020.

“Finding Community in Isolation in Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America.” Ploughshares, April 2020.

Literary Mama, September 2020.

REVIEWS OF HOMING INSTINCTS

Literary Mama, February 2018.

"A Year in Reading," Sarah Smarsh, The Millions.

“Looking Back on the Best Books of 2017,” The Portland Mercury, December 2017.

"Six New Books Guaranteed to Renew Your Promise to Purpose," The New Territory, December 2017.

"Six More Notable Nonfiction Debuts," Poets & Writers, September/October 2017. 

"Meditations on maternal life," BookPage, May 2017.

"May Preview: The Millions Most Anticipated (This Month)," The Millions, May 2017.

"To Be a Mother: 16 Books By, For, and About Mothers," Signature Reads, May 2017.

Booklist, April 2017.

Kirkus, March 2017.

Publishers Weekly, January 2017.

PRESENTATIONS

“Launching a Literary Startup.” Panel with Colleen Kinder, Joel Whitney, and Ander Monson at AWP 2019 in Portland, Oregon.

“Immigration in the Middle.” Panel with Ted Genoways and Kari Lyderson at Between Coasts Forum in Newark, Ohio, 2018.

"How Far The Journey: Immediacy Versus Distance in Narrative Travel Writing." Panel with Rachel Friedman, David Farley, Colleen Kinder, and Rolf Potts at AWP 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.   

All photos by the brilliant Jorge Santiago.