Sadie Hoagland is the author of the novels Circle of Animals (2024, Red Hen Press) and Strange Children (2021, Red Hen Press) and the short story collection American Grief in Four Stages, (2019), which earned a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. Her work has been featured in Salon, Daily Beast, Electric Literature, Necessary Fiction, South Dakota Review, Passages North, Five Points, The Fabulist, The South Carolina Review, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. She has a PhD in Fiction and teaches at the University of Utah.