About

Sarah Fonseca is a writer, editor, and critic based in New York City. She is a co-editor of The New Lesbian Pulp (August 2025, Feminist Press).

Fonseca has dispatched from film festivals including Cannes, New York Film Festival, and Sundance. With one eye on queer history and the other on its future potential, she contributed a volume of interviews, reviews, and critical essays to LGBT and mainstream film publications, including The Advocate, Black Warrior Review, Sinister Wisdom, Condé Nast’s them, Film Comment, and Museum of the Moving Image’s Reverse Shot. 

Sarah has also published short fiction with Evergreen Review, Bosie magazine, Cleis Press, and Math magazine. 

She is presently pursuing studies in History at The City College of New York. 

Photo courtesy Daniel Graindorge.

"Women Indoors," Evergreen Review, January 2021.

The Mommy Issues Picture Show,” Myriam Gurba’s Tasteful Rude, December 2020.

“Reality Is a Drag: I’d Rather Live in Lesbian Pulp Fiction,” Condé Nast’s them., March 2019. 

"From Hystorians to Bolex Dudes: The Many Descendants of Barbara Hammer," The Los Angeles Review of Books, July 2018.

“Two Prongs Through the Same Eyelet: Body Conscious Tools,” Sinister Wisdom Issue 106: The Lesbian Body, Autumn 2017.