Author & Writing Coach
New York Times bestselling author · Former editor, The Atlantic · MacArthur Fellow
About
Sarah Oduya is a two-time New York Times bestselling author whose essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2022 for her contributions to narrative nonfiction. Before her writing career, she spent seven years as a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she developed the voice of a generation of emerging writers.
Her teaching focuses on the sentence — the unit of meaning — before it expands to structure, argument, and the reader's sustained attention.
Sarah Oduya
Sarah Oduya teaches narrative nonfiction as a discipline of observation, structure, and moral responsibility — lessons drawn from two decades of writing for the highest-stakes publications in journalism.
