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Smarsh was born in rural Kansas and grew up on farms and in small towns. Her family moved frequently, and she attended eight schools before she reached ninth grade. She attended the University of Kansas starting in 1998, and received her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University.
Sep 18, 2018 · I spoke to Smarsh by phone between New York and Kansas, where she lives. We discussed the invisibility of class, how “the country” has become a clichéd set of imagery, and how politicians on the left can reach alienated voters.
Smarsh is a frequent political commentator and speaker on socioeconomic class. A former writing professor, Smarsh has served as a Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. She lives in rural Kansas.
Oct 18, 2018 · Heartland is a chronicle of lives and places; a story of the women and men on the lower end of the working class in rural Kansas who nurtured, challenged and continue to inform Sarah Smarsh's...
Sarah Smarsh talks about “She Come by It Natural,” her book about Parton and the lives of her fans. I Am Burning With Fury and Grief Over Elizabeth Warren. And I Am Not Alone. She might not...
Sep 1, 2019 · Smarsh, who lives in Kansas, spoke at length by phone with IN Kansas City shortly after wrapping production on a new six-episode podcast series called The Homecomers about rural America that will be out soon.
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Sep 10, 2018 · In “Heartland,” Sarah Smarsh offers a cleareyed account of hardscrabble life on the Great Plains — a pattern that in her family goes back generations.
