Sarah Rose Etter

Sarah Rose Etter is an American author of experimental fiction. Her first novel, The Book of X[1] (2019), won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Novel Award[2].

The Book of X was also a finalist for the 2019 Believer Book Award,[3] a finalist for the 2019 Golden Poppy Book Award[4], and long-listed for the 2019 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.[5]

Her fiction has appeared in Guernica,[6] Gulf Coast,[7] Juked,[8] and more. Her essays and interviews have appeared in VICE,[9] The Cut,[10] BOMB[11], Electric Literature,[12] and more. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Career

Etter received her B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University, and received her M.F.A. in Fiction from Rosemont College.[13]

Her short story collection Tongue Party was selected by writer and judge Deb Olin Unferth as the winner of the 2010 Caketrain Chapbook Competition.[14] Tongue Party was later translated into French (as Hommes sous verre) by Véronique Béghain and published by éditions do.[15] A review in [PANK] praised the collection, stating that "[Etter] takes you into this disturbing world with her phrasing; she takes you to a place that is a rabbit hole, a witching well, an unframed mirror."[16] LitStack's review praised the book as well, stating that "Sarah Rose Etter uses all of the tools and talents at her disposal — her memory, her body, her touch — to pack her small stories with meaning and emotion. The stories are dark, twisted, beautiful and always poetic."[17]

A 2015 profile in The Toast hailed Etter's approach to prose, writing that "Etter’s words don’t settle. This is dangerous ground, a subduction zone. Her stories should come with an earthquake warning."[18]

Etter's first novel, The Book of X, was published by Two Dollar Radio in 2019.[19] It tells the story of the life of a young woman born with a literal knot in her stomach, making her way through a surreal landscape.The book review aggregation site BookMarks cites the novel as having had a "Positive" reception.[20] Kirkus Reviews dubbed The Book of X "A relentlessly original look at what it means to exist in a female body."[21] And the Minneapolis Star Tribune's review of the novel noted that "Etter writes her weird world with elastic prose, as stripped-down at certain points as it is lyrical in others."[22]

Etter has also written extensively about visual art,[23] and a quote from Carol Rama serves as the epigraph for The Book of X.[24] Etter delivered a keynote address at the 2017 Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference, held at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne.[25] The title of her address was "Bizarre Feminism: Surrealism In The Service of a Movement."[26]

Works
  • Tongue Party, Caketrain, 2011
  • The Book of X, Two Dollar Radio, 2019

References
  1. "The Book of X". Two Dollar Radio. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  2. "The Shirley Jackson Awards". Retrieved 2020-06-25.
  3. "The Believer Book Awards: Editors' Longlists". Believer Magazine. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  4. "Golden Poppy Awards". California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Retrieved 2020-07-12.
  5. "VCU Cabell First Novelist Award". firstnovelist.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  6. Etter, Sarah Rose (2019-07-04). "The Book of X". Guernica. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  7. "Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts". gulfcoastmag.org. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  8. "Sea Day - Sarah Rose Etter - Juked". www.juked.com. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
  9. Etter, Lia Kantrowitz,Sarah Rose (2017-06-08). "Roxane Gay Tells Us About Daring to Be Fat". Vice. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  10. Etter, Sarah Rose (2018-11-15). "When You Get Waxed for a Bad Man". The Cut. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  11. "Fool's Gold: C Pam Zhang Interviewed by Sarah Rose Etter - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  12. "Translating the Dark Surrealism of Samanta Schweblin's "Mouthful of Birds"". Electric Literature. 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2020-04-06.
  13. "bio & contact". sarah rose etter. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  14. subitopress. "Caketrain – Subito Press". Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  15. "Hommes sous verre – éditions do" (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  16. Gay, Roxane (2011-05-11). "Sarah Rose Etter’s Tongue Party: A Review by Dawn West". [PANK]. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  17. Norman, Jason Lee (2011-10-12). "TONGUE PARTY by Sarah Rose Etter". litstack.com. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  18. Moorer, Melissa. "This Writer's On Fire: Sarah Rose Etter - The Toast". the-toast.net. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  19. "Q+A with Sarah Rose Etter about The Book of X". Two Dollar Radio. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  20. "Book Marks reviews of The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter". Book Marks. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  21. THE BOOK OF X by Sarah Rose Etter | Kirkus Reviews.
  22. "Review: 'The Book of X,' by Sarah Rose Etter". Star Tribune. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  23. "Sarah Rose Etter". Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  24. Etter, Kate Durbin interviews Sarah Rose. "Women in Knots: A Conversation with Sarah Rose Etter". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  25. "2017 Université Bordeaux Montaigne". SSAWW. 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  26. "Border Crossings:Translation, Migration, & Gender in the Americas, the Transatlantic, & the Transpacific - Sciencesconf.org". ssaww2017.sciencesconf.org. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
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