Sarah Beck’s Peace Country was a semi-finalist in the 2018 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novel-in-Progress category and its first chapter received First Honorable Mention in the 2021 League of Utah Writers Olive Woolley Burt Awards. She has published poetry in the literary journal Red Weather as well as nonfiction essays in Chaleur Magazine and North Dakota Quarterly.
She teaches both first year and upper-division writing classes at North Dakota State University and has worked as a copy editor for MELUS, a journal specializing in studies of multi-ethnic literature of the United States as well as an editorial administrative assistant for North Dakota State University Press.
Beck holds a B.A. in English (Brigham Young University), M.F.A in Creative Writing (Minnesota State University Moorhead), and Graduate Certificate in Publishing (North Dakota State University).
