7.15.19 PHOTO COURTESY KATHERINE CHUI
HEADER PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE SAN FRANCISCO CLIMATE STRIKE (SEPT. 2019)
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Sarah Feng (she/her/hers) is a student, writer, and Studio Ghibli enthusiast from Northern California.
She is the editor-in-chief of COUNTERCLOCK Journal and the founding director of the COUNTERCLOCK Arts Collective. Her writing has been recognized by the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom, the Adroit Prizes in Poetry & Prose, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the Leyla Beban Young Author's Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, Teen Vogue, & more. Her journalism has been recognized by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, & more. In sixth and ninth grade, she published full-length novels which gathered 260,000 online readers. A 2019 Global Literacy Champion, Sarah is a cross-country and track runner, and loves hiking, road-tripping, and playing Christmas music on the piano very badly (but with spirit!). |
Told in taut, urgent prose, this excerpt of ‘Sleepswim’ builds an entire world in a very short amount of space and time, and what a world it is, too. A dark mirror of the performative ways we live our lives in a time where social media can feel more real than the physical world itself, the story takes this thought to its logical extreme. While the outcome is, unsurprisingly, grim, moments of humour and failed good intentions allow the light in." |
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