Sari Botton is an NYC-expat writer and editor living in Kingston, NY. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times—including two Modern Love columns—Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Women’s Wear Daily, W, The Billfold, The Rumpus, The Millions, Catapult, plus other publications, and assorted anthologies.

She is the Essays Editor for Longreads, where she launched the Fine Lines series of essays on age and aging, and edited the award-winning anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY and its New York Times bestselling follow-up, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY.

At Catapult, she currently teaches essay writing master classes, and anthology editing workshops. At Bay Path University, she teaches creative nonfiction in the MFA program. In the past, she has taught at SUNY Albany, SUNY Ulster, Omega Institute, and with the non-profit TMI Project.

She writes a newsletter called "Adventures in 'Journalism'" about her wayward career path.

Sari Botton

I geek out over personal essays.

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