Sarah Bess Jaffe is a writer, editor, translator, visual artist, and award-winning audiobook producer with 15 years of experience at Penguin Random House. She is a current MFA candidate at St. Joseph's University where she is a two-time Barbara Germack Foundry Fellow, undergraduate lecturer, and co-editor of the Writer's Foundry Review. She is also a translations reader for The Adroit Journal, and co-founder of TBR, a monthly reading series for emerging writers.
Selected work
The Cost of Living
CutBank, 2026
Mr. Mayor
Okay Donkey, 2026
"Hotshot" Is a Fiery Take on the American Western - Electric Literature
Electric Literature, 2025
Bitters
Peatsmoke Journal, 2025
The Mother and the Whore
ARTWIFE, 2025
Dive Bars
The Ignatian Literary Magazine, 2025
Inheritance
Fusion Fragment, 2024
If It's So Easy To Drive Out Snakes, Where's My Sainthood?
JAKE, 2023

