photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
Sasha Bonét is a writer, critic, and editor living in New York City.
Sasha’s debut bookThe Waterbearers is a sweeping intergenerational memoir and cultural history of Black matriarchy in America. Forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf in the fall of 2025.
She received her MFA from Columbia University and teaches nonfiction writing at Columbia’s School of the Arts and Barnard College.
Sasha is represented by Literary agent Alice Whitwham of The Cheney Agency and Film + Television agent Elizabeth Wachtel of WME.
Sasha is the nonfiction editor at Apogee Journal.