Sara Majka is a writer living on Providence’s west side. Her work has appeared in such journals as Guernica, Virginia Quarterly Review and A Public Space. Her first book—a collection of stories called Cities I’ve Never Lived In—was published by Graywolf/A Public Space in 2016 and was a New York Times Notable Book.

Majka earned graduate degrees from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst and Bennington College and was a fiction fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Academic areas of interest include the uncanny in fiction, doppelganger fiction, the short story form and writing that blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction. Other interests include working with multilingual students and with students who are incorporating fiction into their art.