Third Thursday Fiction Reading by Sanjena Sathian

Novelist Sanjena Sathian, Mercer’s 2025 Ferrol A. Sams Distinguished Chair of English, will read from her fiction on January 23. Sathian is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Gold Diggers, which was named a Top 10 Best Book of 2021 by the Washington Post and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It won the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Goddess Complex, will be released in March 2025. Her short fiction appears in The Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, Conjunctions, One Story, Boulevard, and more. She’s written nonfiction for The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Drift, The Yale Review, and NewYorker.com, among other outlets. She also writes for screen and is co-writing the television adaptation of Gold Diggers, which is in development with a major streamer.

Sathian is an alumna of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught at Emory University, the University of Iowa, and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. This semester at Mercer, she is teaching an advanced fiction workshop, CRW 485: The Shape of Imagination.

This event is free and open to the public. A Q and A will follow the reading.