About

SARAH DOHRMANN, MFA, LMSW, is a psychotherapist, a writer of literary nonfiction, and a teacher of writing. She’s a psychotherapist at Brooklyn Somatic Therapy and in the Domestic Violence Aftercare Program at University Settlement, both in New York City. Sarah is EMDRIA-trained in EMDR therapy, a Clinical Fellowship trainee at the Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy, and an honors graduate of the Silberman School of Social Work at CUNY–Hunter College.

Sarah’s writing has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, Tin House Magazine, The Iowa Review, New York, Bustle, Condé Nast Traveler, and the New York Observer, among others.

She has received writing grants and awards from Fulbright (Morocco), the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (Scholar), the Aspen Writers’ Foundation (Aspen Words), and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University (Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize). Residency full fellowships have included VCCA, Ragdale, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. She received her MFA from the Graduate Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College.

Sarah teaches writing in Liberal Studies at New York University. She has also taught in the Language & Thinking Program at Bard College, the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College, and as a writer-in-residence with Teachers & Writers Collaborative.

Sarah’s students, including those who’ve taken her DIVING INTO THE WRECK personal nonfiction writing workshops have published their work widely, including in such journals and publications as The New York Times, The Sun, and Longreads, among others. Former DIVING INTO THE WRECK students have also published their writing in book form, including the award-winning memoirs What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo and The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Geter.