Sasha Geffen
Fiction
Aurora, CO
Sasha Geffen is an author, journalist, and critic. Their debut book Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary (University of Texas Press, 2020) won a Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction and was named a Best Book of 2020 by Kirkus and Rolling Stone. Geffen's writing on music, pop culture, gender, technology, and embodiment has appeared in The Nation, NPR, Pitchfork, Vulture, and many other publications. As a journalist, they have profiled many boundary-dissolving contemporary artists such as Björk, SOPHIE, Charlie XCX, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Mitski. Their short story “Pastiche” was published in the 2023 NO Press anthology Mooncalves, which was nominated for a Shirley Jackson award. Born in Boston, Geffen spent a decade in Chicago and now lives in Denver, where they teach creative writing at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.