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Sara Levine

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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
Wksp:Narrative Design	Writing	5001 (002)	Fall 2026
Description NARRATIVE DESIGN. What makes a story? How does form reveal meaning? How do narrative structures orient a reader to what?s important in a text? This is a workshop in fiction writing with a built-in, inescapable, in-your-face focus on narrative design. Concepts to include arc, plot, scene, rate of revelation, modular, linear and lyric structures. The readings focus on concepts that the workshops will integrate as we roll along. Don't take this class unless you have already drafted two stories.		Class Number 2084 Credits 3
Grad Projects:Writing	Writing	6009 (003)	Spring 2026
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

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