Sarah Valentine

Sarah Valentine, Ph.D., is a widely published author and translator. In 2013 she was a Lannan Foundation Writers Fellow and has taught literature and creative writing at Princeton, University of California-Los Angeles, University f California-Riverside, and Northwestern University. In her memoir When I Was White, she recounts growing up in Pittsburgh as a mixed race African American in a white family who kept her identity a closely held secret. She lives in Pittsburgh.