about | Sedwards

Hello. I live in North Carolina, where I was born and raised. For awhile I lived in Brooklyn, and later, Syracuse (too cold!).

I'm the Arts & Culture Editor at the INDY Week, an alternative weekly in the Triangle that was founded in 1983 and is still kicking. I also freelance.

Here's my blog.

And here are some links to my work: journalism, fiction, poetry, and—at my most vulnerable—playlists. Thanks for reading!

Awards & Fellowships

Education

Teaching

Poetry

"One possible implication" (The Southern Humanities Review)
"Emily" (Ninth Letter)
"Retrospect" (The Sycamore Review)
"How to Change a Tire" (Typo Mag)
"Man on Phone at Gas Station" (Hobart)
"The Visit" (Prelude)
Rachel Eats the Nasturtium" (Prelude)
"Olive," "Esau," Route" (The Carolina Quarterly)
"A Line Prayer" (No Tokens)
"Vespers" (Brink, forthcoming)
"Weekend," "Angel Food Cake," "Field Recordings" (Annulet, forthcoming)
"Fable" (The Yale Review, forthcoming)

Fiction

"Dead Dog" (Subtropics)
"Neighbour" (The Stinging Fly)
"Driving to Ithaca" (The Southeast Review)
"Certainty" (Joyland)
"About Dust" (Joyland)

Publication

Select INDY Week features

Select INDY Week profiles and interviews

Other work

"Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Sweetly Southern-Gothic Family Album" (NewYorker.com)
"“I’m Very Much in Love with Where I’m From”: William Christenberry’s American South" (NewYorker.com)
"The World of Nora Ephron: A Reading List" (Longform)
"Spreading the Bad News" (The Baffler)
"How Nina Riggs Found Brightness in Her Darkest Hour" (The Village Voice)
"Claire Messud, Elena Ferrante, and the Tortured Intensity of BFFs" (The Village Voice)
"“The Bachelor” Meets “The Handmaid’s Tale” in Catherine Lacey’s New Novel" (The Village Voice)