photo by Elliot Jerome Brown Jr.
Sasha Bonét is a writer, cultural critic, and editor living in New York City.
Sasha’s debut bookThe Waterbearers is a sweeping intergenerational cultural history of Black motherhood and the exploration of the industrialization of the womb as the foundation of the American Empire. 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’s English department.
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.