Sarah Manguso is an acclaimed American writer and poet renowned for her literary contributions across various genres. In 2007, she was honored with the prestigious Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir The Two Kinds of Decay (2008) received critical acclaim, being named an "Editors’ Choice" by the New York Times Sunday Book Review and a "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the San Francisco Chronicle. Another of her notable works, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary (2015), was also celebrated as a New York Times "Editors’ Choice."

Manguso made a successful foray into fiction with her debut novel Very Cold People, released by Penguin in 2022. The novel garnered attention for being longlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. She has announced that her next novel, Liars, is set to be published in 2024.

Her extensive body of work includes a story collection, two poetry collections, and four other highly regarded works of nonfiction: 300 Arguments, Ongoingness, The Guardians, and The Two Kinds of Decay. Her writing, which has been translated into a dozen languages, has earned her an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize.

Originally from Massachusetts, Manguso now resides in Los Angeles, where she continues to create and inspire through her literary works.