Baker Artist Portfolios

Sarah Pinsker writes literary speculative fiction. Her Philip K Dick Award-winning first collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, was published by Small Beer Press in 2019, and her Nebula Award-winning first novel, A Song For A New Day, was published that same year by Penguin Random House; the latter has since become renowned for its prescient depiction of a pandemic's effect on live music. Her most recent book is the 2023 collection Lost Places. She has sold over sixty stories to literary and speculative magazines and anthologies, including The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, Asimov's, Long Hidden: Speculative Stories From the Margins of History and Accessing the Future. Her stories have been translated into Chinese, French, Spanish, Turkish, Japanese, and Italian, among other languages, and have been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies.
She has studied fiction under Madison Smartt Bell and Jen Michalski, taught fiction at Goucher College, and workshopped peer-to-peer with PEN/Faulkner winner Karen Joy Fowler, Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, Whiting Award winner Molly Gloss, and Ted Chiang. 
Her novelettes "Our Lady of the Open Road" and "Two Truths And A Lie" won Nebula Awards. Her novelette "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind," won the Theodore Sturgeon Award, a juried award presented by the University of Kansas' Gunn Center. Between 2018 and 2022, her stories were finalists and/or winners of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, Eugie Foster Memorial and World Fantasy Awards, covering almost every major award in speculative fiction.
She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various independent labels (the third with her rock band, the Stalking Horses); the fourth, Something to Hold, released in 2021. Her music informs and infuses her fiction. She has played clubs and festivals from Seattle to Boston to Beijing. Locally, she has performed at Artscape, Baltimore Pride, Charm City Kitty Club, and every venue from the Ottobar to the Creative Alliance.  
She has called Baltimore home for over twenty years.