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Sarah Cronin

Adjunct Professor

Part-Time Faculty
Kalmanovitz Hall 487
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Biography

Sarah Cronin is a multi-genre writer, journalist and teacher. Her work has been featured in publications across the U.S., Brazil and Guatemala. In 2023, her poetry was long listed for the Frontier Poetry Hurt & Healing Prize. Sarah has worked at the University of San Francisco as a Teaching Assistant and Adjunct Professor for the English Department and Writer for the School of Law.

Expertise

  • Nonfiction
  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Literary studies
  • Psychology
  • Marketing communications
  • Dance & performance studies

Research Areas

  • 19th century literature
  • Dance poetics
  • Performance & resistance

Appointments

  • Secretary, Graduate Writers Association, University of San Francisco
  • Workshop Facilitator, Bay Area Book Festiva

Education

  • University of San Francisco, MFA in Creative Writing, 2024
  • UC Berkeley, BA in Psychology with a Minor in Performance Studies, 2012

Prior Experience

  • Teaching Assistant in English, University of San Francisco
  • Writer, Marketing and Communications, USF School of Law
  • Development Director, Organization for the Development of the Indigenous Maya

Awards & Distinctions

  • University of San Francisco Schmidt Family Fellowship Award, 2022
  • Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund Hoffman Scholarship, 2022
  • UC Berkeley Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship, 2012
  • UC Berkeley Alumni Association’s Leadership Award, 2012

Selected Publications

  • Reverie for the Hard Times by Sarah Cronin, Four Leaf Collective Anthology, 2024
  • The Invisible Hiker, by Kira Harland, Edited by Sarah Cronin, 2022