Sara J. Winston
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Sara J. Winston is a photographer and writer based in New York. She produces photographs for books and exhibitions, writes creative-nonfiction, and makes hybrid image-text photobooks to describe and respond to chronic illness and its ongoing impact on her body, mind, family, and memory. She is the author of several books, among them: (Composit Press, 2026), Too Visceral to be Intelligent (self-published, 2026), Sugar Honey Iced Tea (For the Birds Trapped in Airports, 2025), Foibles & Avoidance (National Monument Press, 2024), A Lick and a Promise (Candor Arts, 2017), and Homesick (Zatara Press, 2015).
Sara is Associate Director and Artist in Residence of the Photography Program at Bard College, Co-Chair of the Penumbra Foundation/Image Threads Long Term Photobook Program, and a contributing writer at Collector Daily.
On June 29, 2023, her long-term project about multiple sclerosis care was adapted and published as an op-ed in the New York Times, titled ‘My body is a clock’: The Private Life of Chronic Care.