Sarah Viren is an American essayist best known for her 2018 essay collection Mine.
In 2016, Viren won the Riverteeth Book Prize which offered publication of her essay collection Mine.
[2] In 2020, The New York Times published a personal essay by Viren in which she revealed that she and her wife, Marta, both academics, were targeted with false accusations that they had sexually assaulted former students, accusations perpetuated by an unnamed academic whose harassment was based on professional jealousy.
[3] The essay was also featured on an episode of The New York Times' popular podcast The Daily.
[4] Viren works as an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Arizona State University.