What made you want to work in English Studies?

I love helping students find their voices as writers so they can share their ideas and experiences with the world. 

What do you like about working with students?

I love seeing students discover their voice and the power it holds through the writing process.

Three book recommendations:

The Round House—Lousie Erdrich, Migrations (A Novel)--Charlotte McConaghy, Cloud Cuckoo Land—Anthoney Doerr

Recent publications (not the full list, see CV):

"Ymir's Blood" (Nonfiction Essay, North Dakota Quarterly) 2022

CV

Biographical Sketch
Sarah Beck holds a B.A. in English (Brigham Young University), M.F.A in Creative Writing (MSUM), and Graduate Certificate in Publishing (NDSU).

She teaches both first year and upper-division writing classes at NDSU and has worked as a copy editor for MELUS, a journal specializing in studies of multi-ethnic literature of the United States as well as an editorial administrative assistant for NDSU Press.

As a writer, her novel Peace Country was a semi-finalist in the 2018 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in the Novel-in-Progress category and its first chapter received First Honorable Mention in the 2021 League of Utah Writers Olive Woolley Burt Awards. She has published poetry in the literary journal Red Weather as well as nonfiction essays in Chaleur Magazine and North Dakota Quarterly.

Sarah also enjoys reading, running, and spending time with family.