Sarah Madges is a Brooklyn-based freelance editor, writer, and copywriter, as well as a nonfiction reader and copy editor at Guernica . They hold an MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School (2016) and have written essays and reviews for Guernica, The Rumpus, the Village Voice, and more, and are anthologized in books from CCM Press (A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault, 2017) and The Seventh Wave (We Keep Beginning, 2021). They co-curate and -edit Handwritten, an online project dedicated to the art and act of handwriting, and formerly hosted the monthly poetry reading series, Mental Marginalia from 2015–2017, as well as the monthly writer’s variety show, Same Page Reading Series, at KGB Bar’s Red Room from 2018–2020.
As a literary organizer, they’ve partnered with NYPL, the Smithsonian Archive of American Arts, the Morgan Library, PEN America, 826 NYC, The Poetry Project, Brooklyn Book Festival, Atlas Obscura, Bowery Poetry Club, the Sketchbook Project, Big Words Reading Series, Pen + Brush Gallery, Flatiron BID, and more.