Sarah Langan

Sarah Langan is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her most recent novel, Good Neighbors (S&S 2021), was a B&N Book of the Month selection, an Amazon readers' choice, an Apple must-listen, and a Newsweek, Irish Times, and AARP best book of the year, and according to Gabino Iglesias at NPR, is "One of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia I've ever read." Her novella "You Have the Prettiest Mask," is out now from LCRW via Small Beer Press, and her short story "Night Nurse" is also now out in Best Horror of the Year, Volume 12. She's won three Bram Stoker Awards, and her previous novels are The Keeper, The Missing, and Audrey's Door. She has an MFA from Columbia University, an MS in Environmental Toxicology from NYU, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, the writer/director JT Petty, their two daughters, a hamster, a tarantula, and a maniac rabbit.

Her next novel, Mom's Night Out, will be published in Spring 2024, and you can find out what else she's up to on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Interview recorded on 2022-07-24.