Sasha Bonét is a writer, cultural critic, and educator living in New York City.

While employing various mediums for storytelling, Bonét’s work explores the ways in which race, gender, and art influence cultural norms and the way we experience them.

Bonét is currently at work on a narrative nonfiction book titled, The Waterbearers, a sweeping intergenerational cultural history of Black motherhood and the exploration of the industrialization of the womb as the foundation of the American Empire, for Alfred A. Knopf.

She studied at Columbia University's creative writing MFA program and currently teaches nonfiction writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and Barnard’s English department.

Sasha is represented by Literary agent Alice Whitwham of The Cheney Agency and Film + Television agent Elizabeth Wachtel of WME.