2025 Science + Literature Selection Committee

Sara Goudarzi is the author of the debut novel The Almond in the Apricot and several children’s titles including Leila’s Day at the Pool. Her nonfiction, poetry, and translations have appeared in Scientific American, the New York Times, National Geographic News, The Adirondack Review, and Drunken Boat, among others. Sara has taught writing at New York University and Mediabistro, and is a 2017 Writers in Paradise Les Standiford fellow and a Tin House alumna.

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