Sara Corbett

Sara Corbett has worked as a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine since 2001, writing about everything from the plight of Sudanese refugees in the U.S., to child-trafficking in Cambodia, and the life and times of world’s best 12-year-old baseball pitcher. Her work has also appeared in Elle, Outside, O: The Oprah Magazine, Esquire, New York, Mother Jones, Travel and Leisure, The Times of London, and National Geographic, as well as in numerous anthologies. Her reporting on the impact of industrial chemicals on an American family earned her a “Front Page” award from the Newswoman’s Club of New York, and she was nominated for National Magazine Award for feature writing for her story on Carl Jung’s secret “Red Book.” She is the author of Venus to the Hoop and A House in the Sky. She lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband—writer Michael Paterniti—and their children, and is the co-founder of The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing and storytelling center that works with more than 2,000 young writers per year.