ABOUT

Sarah Fonseca, short-story writer, critic, and essayist, was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1989. She was brought up in the Piedmont Region and has pursued studies in History at Georgia Southern University and The City College of New York. Miss Fonseca has lectured and presented work at The Brooklyn Museum, KGB Bar, The New York Public Library, The School of Visual Arts, and the University of Southern California. She is the author of a novella, Sea Queens (2020), a number of short stories, and many critical essays, some of which are now collected in new feminisms on Substack. 

Evaluating her work over a decade ago, author Peter Cashwell described Miss Fonseca as writing like a “forrester, digging deep in the earth.” 

Miss 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 has contributed a volume of interviews, reviews, and critical essays to LGBT and mainstream film publications, She is a co-editor of The New Lesbian Pulp (2025, Feminist Press). 

Miss Fonseca is currently at work on a second novella, The Stewardesses; and Sontag: A Very Public History, a biography of the late public intellectual.