My Short Fiction

I am the 2022 Narrative Prize winner, the 2021 winner of Narrative Magazine’s 30 Under Contest, a 2024 finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Award and a 2021 Finalist for the Cecilia Joyce Johnson Award for Short Fiction from the Key West Literary Seminar. I have been a writer-in-residence at the Ou Gallery, Hedgebrook and Craigardan. I serve as a fiction editor at The Maple Tree Literary Supplement. I am working on my debut short story collection about race, power, and the intimate lives of men and women.

I am represented by Ellen Levine and Audrey Crooks at Trident Media Group.

Stories

My short story, “When Things End,” was a finalist for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. It featured in Issue 1 of adda’s 2024 edition.

My short story, “Rouses Point,” featured on the front page of Narrative Magazine’s 2022 Fall Edition. It received the Narrative Prize in 2022.

Sarah Balakrishnan Narrative Magazine Rouses Point

My debut short story, “Trump versus Superman,” was the first prize winner of Narrative Magazine’s 2021 Best Under 30 Contest, and a finalist for the Cecilia Joyce Johnson Award for Short Fiction.