Sarah Sentilles

Sarah Sentilles is a writer, teacher, critical theorist, and scholar of religion. After graduating from Yale University, she joined Teach for America and taught at an elementary school in Compton, California, an experience that became the basis for Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton. She earned master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard Divinity School and has taught at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland State University, California State University Channel Islands, and Willamette University.

Her other books include A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit, Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, Draw Your Weapons, and Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn’t Ours. Draw Your Weapons won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction, and her writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic.