The Skin and Its Girl

A young, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her gre at-aunt's secrets in this debut, confronting questions of sexual identity, exile, and lineage.

Sarah Cypher has an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Fellow in fiction, and a BA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her writing has appeared in the New Ohio Review, North American Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among other publications. She is from a Lebanese Christian family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and lives in Washington, D.C., with her wife.