Sarah Freligh
Sarah Freligh is the author of Sad Math, winner of the 2014 Moon City Press Poetry Prize and the 2015 Whirling Prize from the University of Indianapolis; A Brief Natural History of an American Girl (Accents Publishing, 2012); and Sort of Gone (Turning Point Books, 2008). Recent work has been featured on Writer’s Almanac, appeared in the Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, diode, and in the anthologies New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (Norton 2018) and Best Microfiction 2019 and 2020. Among her awards are a 2009 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in 2006. She lives and swims in Rochester, New York.
This me-too guide to We takes a deep dive into golf greens, mom & pops, cornfields, & figure salons to rescue the wreck eons of Kingship has wrought on everyone from the school shooter to Cassiopeia & the holy roller girl. Freligh’s voice is fresh & flagrant, tender as it is Olympic, the curse that works its own godspell—& this book broke my heart open.
—Jane Springer, author of Dear Blackbird and Murder Ballad
In her brilliant new chapbook, master microfictionist Sarah Freligh creates characters who are simultaneously tough and vulnerable, revealing the weird light found in sad, unsolvable situations. If you're anything like me, you'll reread the beautiful broken-hearted stories in We many times to savor their uncomfortable magic.These are the most delicious microfiction truffles one can find here on Planet Earth and I swallowed them whole.
—Meg Pokrass, author of The Loss Detector and Co-Editor of Best Microfiction
Read a review of “We” on Harbor Review by Kristiane Weeks-Rogers.