In preparation for the upcoming Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference this April, Accents will be providing updates and highlights of our writers who are attending. Sarah Freligh, author of A Brief Natural History of an American Girl, will be signing copies of her newest release, Sad Math, at the conference. Sad Math has been described by Mark Irwin, author of White City, as “a marvelous arc that captures and explores what it means for all sentient beings to age and find the unreasonable sum of years.”

Below are details on where she will be signing books at the conference.

Sarah Freligh is the author of Sort of Gone (Turning Point Books, 2008). Her work has appeared in The Sun, Rattle, Brevity, Barn Owl Review, Cimarron Review, Iowa Woman, Third Coast, Tar River Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly and on Garrison Keillor’s “Writer’s Almanac.” Among her awards are a 2009 poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a poetry grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation in 2006, and an Artist’s Exchange grant from the New York State Council for the Arts in 1997. She is co-winner of the Whirling Prize for Sad Math, a post-publication award given by the English Department of the University of Indianapolis. She is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York.