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SAIC faculty member Sara Levine, a person with light skin tone and gray hair against a gray backdrop.

Sara Levine

Professor

Bio

Sara Levine (she/her) is the author of the novels The Hitch, Treasure Island!!! and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. Her essays, stories, and aphorisms have appeared in various magazines including The Iowa Review, Nerve, Conjunctions, Necessary Fiction, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She holds a PhD in English from Brown University and was awarded a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. She co-edited The Broadview Anthology of Short Fiction, 3rd edition (Broadview Press, 2013) and wrote the Afterword to Signet Classics reprint of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (2016). 

Publications

The Hitch (Grove Atlantic: Roxane Gay Books, January 2026); Treasure Island!!! (Europa Editions, Tonga Books, 2012); Short Dark Oracles (Caketrain Press, 2011; second printing, 2013).

Work

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

2340

Credits

3 - 6