Sarah Fawn Montgomery is the author of Quite Mad: An American Pharma Memoir, which The Atlantic says, “Exemplifies a nuanced approach to life with mental illness” and The Paris Review describes as “The wakeup call that we need.” She is also the author of the essay collection Halfway from Home, winner of a Nautilus Book Award for lyric prose, the flash nonfiction collection Abbreviate, the craft text Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice, and three poetry chapbooks. Fathom, a poetry collection about living with chronic pain and invisible disability, is forthcoming from The Propel Disability Poetry Book Series. Her work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays many times, and her poetry and prose have appeared in Brevity, Catapult, Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, New England Review, Poetry, The Rumpus, Terrain, The Writer’s Chronicle, Writer’s Digest, and hundreds of other journals and anthologies. She holds an MFA from California State University-Fresno and a PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she worked as the longtime nonfiction editor for Prairie Schooner. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of Nerve to Write: A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers. She is also an Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University, where she teaches creative writing and disability studies.