Interviews + Appearances
Every novel is a love letter: Notes on the epistolary form
Public lecture at Middlebury College, VT, 2022
Interview by Melanie J. Fishbane “I am curious about the marriage contract as a regulatory tool in society. Along with such “modern” institutions as medicine and law in the nineteenth century, marriage was a way of containing and regulating women’s sexuality and public deportment, as well as stabilizing the economies of property and childrearing.”
Sarah answers questions from 8 fellow writers. “My favourite writers are those who inhabit that sweet spot between everyday, vivid, granular detail and wildly fantastical or transcendent elements.”
Interview by Prachi Kamble. “There are people who talk about gender roles as being inborn. They use that as an argument to not make changes. That’s not what I’m interested in – that there’s no point in lifting a finger. That is one side effect of studying gender in mythology, you feel like we haven’t come anywhere in 3000 years.”
Interview by Danila Botha “I wanted to capture something that I experience all the time in academia: this amazing sort of belief, or feeling that the things you’re learning about in class have relevance in your life. If students, at an undergrad or graduate level are into what they’re learning, if they have professors who light a fire under them, [they] suddenly see how tantalizing and relevant the material is.”
May 15, 2019. Author Sarah Henstra introduces her new YA novel We Contain Multitudes
As writer in residence at the Siena Art Institute, Sarah gives an informal talk on her creative writing habits and strategies