Welcome
Sarah Fay (M.F.A., M.A., Ph.D.) is an award-winning author, creative writing teacher, and keynote speaker. Her work has been featured in and on NPR, Oprah Daily, Salon, Forbes, WGN Morning News, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Los Angeles Times, and more. She writes for many publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and The Paris Review, where she was an advisory editor.
Her journalistic memoir Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses (HarperCollins) was an Apple Best Books pick, hailed in The New York Times as a “fiery manifesto of a memoir,” and named by Parade Magazine as one of the sixteen best mental health memoirs to read.
“Pathological will make you passionate about improving the way we handle mental health.”
—Apple Best Books Pick
A “fiery manifesto of a memoir”
—The New York Times
One of Parade Magazine’s 16 Great Books About Mental Health
—Parade Magazine
Cured: The Memoir tells the story of Sarah’s full recovery from serious mental illness and how recovery is possible for everyone. It’s the sequel to Pathological. Read the exclusive publication on Substack.
As a keynote speaker, Sarah wows audiences with her inspiring story of a full recovery from mental illness. She’s given life-changing talks at universities, colleges, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and community mental health centers across the country.
She lives in Chicago with her beloved cats, Siddhartha (a.k.a. Sweets) and Baby Theo.
She’s on the faculty at Northwestern University and runs Writers at Work, a weekly newsletter with workshops to help creative writers produce their best work on Substack and get paid (very) well to do it. Her master plan is to make Substack the literary center of the universe.