Sarah L. Kaufman

Sarah L. Kaufman is a Pulitzer Prize–winning critic, an author, and a writing teacher. As The Washington Post's chief dance critic and senior arts reporter, she focused on the union of art and everyday living. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Review of Books, and The Boston Globe. She was a 2024 Penn State Foster-Foreman Distinguished Writer and has received journalism fellowships from the Nieman Foundation and the French-American Foundation. Her debut book, The Art of Grace, was a Washington Post notable book and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a Spirituality & Practice Award. A former McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University, Kaufman has also taught at Harvard University, American University, and the National Critics Institute. She lives in Asheville, North Carolina.