Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times Critics’ and NPR Best Book of the Year, finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and a longlist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; the novels True Love and Binary Star, a finalist for the LA Times First Fiction Prize; and the chapbook The Butter House. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, Guernica, McSweeney’s, BOMB Magazine, and more. She holds an MFA from The New School and is a graduate student in the criminal justice program at CU Denver. She’s a private investigator.