Sarah Moss
Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. She is the author of four novels: Cold Earth, Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, Bodies of Light and Signs for Lost Children; and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik, and wrote an account of her time there in Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which was shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013. Her novel The Tidal Zone will be published by Granta in summer 2016.
Sarah Moss on Granta.com
Fiction|The Online Edition
Fiction|The Online Edition
things that didn’t happen
Sarah Moss
‘Suddenly, your heart began; suddenly in the darkness of your mother’s womb there was a crackle and a flash and out of nothing, the current began to run.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Shakespeare for Children
Sarah Moss
‘I can’t think, my mother said as we sat down, why people think a play that’s all about unsanctioned sexual desire is suitable for little girls.’
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
On the Refugee Crisis
Sarah Moss
‘I imagine that each of my migrant forebears needed a bit of help on each arrival, a bit of human decency’
Fiction|The Online Edition
Fiction|The Online Edition
Japan Lights
Sarah Moss
‘She kneels and bows her head almost to the floor, as if pretending he’s one of her idols.’
