National Book Award Winner and instant New York Times bestseller Sarah Monique Broom is the author of The Yellow House – a brilliant, haunting, and unforgettable memoir.
The Yellow House, is about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. Heralded as “an instantly essential text, examining the past, present and possible future of the city of New Orleans, and of America writ large” (cover review of the New York Times Book Review), Sarah’s debut has been dubbed a must-read book in over 15 publications including the LA Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, NPR, Oxford American, and TIME. Sarah is currently working on her next three books, which will take readers on a collective journey, as she does in her poignant talks about her writing, reflections, the creative process, and lessons from the past we carry into the future.
Sarah’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. Sarah has been sought-after for events with Princeton University, The East Baton Rouge Parish Library, Adelphi University, Tulane University, Millsaps College, Stanford University, and the National Association for Law Placement, among others.
She received her undergraduate degree in anthropology and mass communications from the University of North Texas before earning a Master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her writing career as a newspaper journalist working in Rhode Island, New Orleans, and Hong Kong (for TIME Asia). She served as an editor at O, The Oprah Magazine for several years and, then, worked extensively in the nonprofit world, including as Executive Director of the global nonprofit, Village Health Works, which has offices in Burundi and New York.
She divides her time between New Orleans and New York, living with her partner, film maker Dee Reese.