About Mara Sandroff

Mara Sandroff is a fiction writer, essayist, and critic based in Brooklyn, New York and Tucson, Arizona. She writes literary criticism for Newcity Lit and has an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her work has been featured in the Emerging Writer Series of Roxane Gay’s The Audacity newsletter. She has received support from Vermont Studio Center, Catapult, and Write On, Door County’s Writers Residency Program, and she is an alumna of Catapult’s final Novel in a Year class, Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s 2023 Lit Fest (Fiction and Nonfiction), Kenyon Review’s 2023 Winter Workshops (Nonfiction), Kenyon Review’s 2021 Writers Workshop (Fiction), and One Story’s 2019 Summer Writers Conference, as well as a 2021 finalist in Tucson Festival of Book’s Literary Awards and a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. Other writing has also appeared in FF2 Media, Hey Alma, and One Story’s blog.

Mara is currently at work on a novel and essay collection.