Sarah Smarsh
sarah.smarsh@washburn.edu :
Assistant professor Sarah Smarsh holds an MFA in nonfiction writing from
Columbia University, as well a B.S. in journalism and a B.A. in English
from the University of Kansas. She has written for the Huffington Post,
Kansas City's The Pitch, Lawrence.com and
newspapers across the Midwest, and has won awards from the Society of
Professional Journalists and the Kansas Press Association. Smarsh has
taught creative nonfiction, including memoir, profile-writing and
narrative journalism, at Columbia University, Ottawa University and
Lawrence Arts Center. She teaches nonfiction in Washburn's creative
writing program and serves as the faculty advisor for inscape, the literary journal of Washburn University.