Sarah Beck has joined the NDSU Press staff as an editorial administrative assistant.

Beck earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Brigham Young University and Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

She taught at NDSU as an English and creative writing adjunct instructor from 2012 to 2014. She also worked as a copy editor for MELUS, a journal specializing in studies of multi-ethnic literature of the United States.

As a writer, Beck’s 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 a nonfiction essay in Chaleur Magazine.

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