Sara Jaffe
Visiting Associate Professor of Creative Writing
English Department
Division of Literature and Languages
Sara Jaffe has been a returning visiting faculty member at Reed since 2014. Her fiction, nonfiction and multi-genre workshops give students the tools to develop their writing not only on the page but as a tool to situate themselves in relation to others, their communities, and the world at large. Sara teaches introductory workshops as well as special topics workshops focused on queer writing, writing the contemporary moment, and practices around being a working writer in the world. In her own work, Sara mines small moments of becoming and unbecoming around gender, queerness, friendship, "coming of age," and parenthood, and also frequently draws on her experience as a musician to explore questions of performance and cultural production. Sara Jaffe is the author of Dryland (Tin House Books). Her short fiction has been published in Joyland, Fence, BOMB, Catapult, The Offing, and elsewhere. Her essays and criticism about literature and music have recently appeared in Hanif Abdurraqib's 68 to 05 project and in Third Man Records' Maggot Brain. Sara is currently working on Hurricane Envy, a collection of short stories, and I'm My Own Grandpa, a novel.