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- 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.
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Sarah Smarsh (born 1980) is an American journalist and nonfiction writer. Background. 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. [2] .
- Writer
- Nonfiction
- 1980 (age 42–43), Kingman, Kansas, U.S.
Sep 18, 2018 · “I was born a fifth-generation Kansas farmer,” writes Sarah Smarsh, “roots so deep in the country where I was raised that I rode tractors on the same land where my ancestors rode wagons.” In her memoir Heartland , Smarsh tells the story of four generations of that Kansas family.
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 is a Kansas-based journalist, author of Heartland, and a frequent speaker and commentator on economic inequality. She is host and executive producer of The Homecomers podcast.
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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Sarah Smarsh is a Kansas-based journalist who covers socioeconomic class, politics and public policy. Her first book, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Apr 24, 2017 · Smarsh draws on her wealth of personal experience in a new anthology, Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided State (Penguin), and her first book, In the Red (Scribner), due...
