Sarah L. Kaufman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, an award-winning author and a writing teacher. As the Washington Post’s chief dance critic she wrote about the arts, entertainment, and society for 27 years. Her work has also appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Review of Books and the Boston Globe, among others. Her debut book, The Art of Grace, was a 2015 Washington Post Notable Book and won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and a Spirituality & Practice Award. A 2024 Penn State Foster-Foreman Distinguished Writer, Sarah has taught at Harvard, American University, the National Critics Institute and Princeton, where she was a McGraw Professor of Writing. She has received journalism fellowships from the Nieman Foundation and French-American Foundation. Sarah and her husband have three children and live in Asheville, North Carolina.