hello! welcome. I’m a writer and artist currently living in Southern California where I’m parenting my two children and in the (long) finishing stretch of my PhD. I write novels (repped by Amanda Orozco and Jo Ramsay at Transatlantic Literary), essays and book reviews, news stories and short stories.
I’ve been a fellow with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (2018), a Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka (2019-20), and a student with the Granta Memoir Writing Workshop (2024). I have also participated in the LA Review of Books Publishing Workshop (2022) and the Northern California Writers’ Retreat (2024). I have a Master of Journalism degree from UC Berkeley (2019) and a Master of Comparative Literature degree from UC Irvine (2022). I hope to graduate with my PhD in Comparative Literature in the next few years. I’m working through an Artist Residency in Motherhood, begun August 2024. Check the program out–it’s a little reach across the void that postpartum can be for so many of us.
My writing has won awards and been featured on “Best of” lists, but really, what matters most to me is what’s to come, and the day-to-day wonders: observing my children learn to move their bodies in new ways, interpret the world around them, and count their stuffed animals (“8-9-3-5”); learning new ways of making art; working on my fiction projects.
Here is a playlist I’ve honed over the last ten+ years. I often stop and close my eyes while listening to it. I hope it can help you find those peaceful moments, too. If you’re also a writer, or if you’ve read something of mine, or if you’d like to read something, or if you just want to talk (!), please get in touch with me: sehoenicke [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks for visiting!
sarah hoenicke flores 