Sara Sligar is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, Take Me Apart, was published by MCD in 2020. It was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year and was short-listed for the Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction. She holds a doctoral degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s of philosophy in modern European history from the University of Cambridge.

2025 Festival Session