Sarah Menkedick’s Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America (Pantheon, 2020) explores the scientific, psychological, historical, and spiritual roots of a silent epidemic of anxiety among American mothers. Sarah’s debut essay collection, Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm (Pantheon, 2017), was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Sarah's writing has been featured in Harper's, the New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Pacific Standard, The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, the Guardian, The Paris Review Daily, Aeon, Guernica, Buzzfeed, Amazon's Kindle Singles, and elsewhere. She was a 2015-2016 Fulbright fellow in Oaxaca, Mexico, and a 2019 Creative Nonfiction Writing Fellow in Pittsburgh, PA.

Sarah holds a B.A. in History of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.F.A. in nonfiction from the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches nonfiction writing. She speaks fluent French and Spanish.