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'''Sarah Stillman''' is an American [[journalist]]. She won a 2012 [[George Polk Award]],<ref>http://www.nationofchange.org/recruited-police-and-thrown-danger-young-informants-are-drug-war-s-latest-victims-1361378959</ref> and 2012 [[Hillman Prize]].<ref>http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/2012-hillman-prize-magazine-journalism</ref>
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'''Sarah Stillman''' is an American professor, staff writer at ''[[The New Yorker]]'' magazine,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nast |first=Condé |title=Sarah Stillman |url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/sarah-stillman |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}</ref> and [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[journalist]] focusing on immigration policy,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aila.org/advo-media/press-releases/2018/jonathan-blitzer-sarah-stillman-2018-media-award|title=AILA - AILA Presents Jonathan Blitzer and Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker with the 2018 Media Leadership Award|website=www.aila.org|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> the [[Criminal justice|criminal justice system]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cjr.org/q_and_a/qa-new-yorkers-sarah-stillman-on-oklahoma-women-in-prison-reporting-amid-trauma.php|title=Q&A: New Yorker's Sarah Stillman on Oklahoma women in prison and reporting amid trauma|last=McCormick|first=Andrew|date=2018-11-01|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> and the impacts of climate change on workers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stillman |first=Sarah |date=2021-11-01 |title=The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/08/the-migrant-workers-who-follow-climate-disasters |access-date=2024-06-19 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> Stillman won a National Magazine Award in 2012 for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan and again in 2019 for her article in ''The New Yorker'' on deportation as a death sentence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NEW YORKER, TIMES MAGAZINE AND TOPIC WIN TOP HONORS AT NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS |url=https://asme.memberclicks.net/new-yorker--times-magazine-and-topic-win-top-honors-at-national-magazine-awards |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=asme.memberclicks.net}}</ref> She won a 2012 [[George Polk Award]] for her reporting on the high-risk use of young people as confidential informants in the war on drugs,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Past Winners {{!}} Long Island University |url=https://liu.edu/polk-awards/past-winners#2012 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=liu.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/20/throwaways_recruited_by_police_thrown_into|title=Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown into Danger, Young Informants are Drug War's Latest Victims|website=Democracy Now!|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> and a second Polk Award in 2021 for coverage of migrant workers and climate change.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Past Winners {{!}} Long Island University |url=https://liu.edu/polk-awards/past-winners#2021 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=liu.edu}}</ref> She also won the 2012 [[Hillman Prize]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hillmanfoundation.org/2012-hillman-prize-magazine-journalism|title=2012 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism|date=2012-04-14|website=Hillman Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> In 2016, she was named a [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellow.]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/972/|title=Sarah Stillman — MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=2016-09-22}}</ref> She won a 2024 [[Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting]] for her coverage in''[[The New Yorker]]''<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=LaForme |first=Ren |date=2024-05-06 |title=Here are the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/2024-pulitzer-prize-winners/ |access-date=2024-05-06 |website=Poynter |language=en-US}}</ref> about troubling injustices in felony murder prosecutions in the U.S.


Her investigative reporting has shed light on profiteering in key areas of U.S. life, particularly prisons and jails;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stillman |first=Sarah |date=2014-06-16 |title=Get Out of Jail, Inc. |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/get-out-of-jail-inc |access-date=2024-06-19 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> immigration detention facilities;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stillman |first=Sarah |date=2015-04-20 |title=Kidnapped at the Border |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/where-are-the-children |access-date=2024-06-19 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> disaster recovery programs; and U.S. war zone contracting.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stillman |first=Sarah |date=2011-05-30 |title=The Invisible Army |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/06/06/the-invisible-army |access-date=2024-06-19 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}</ref> She has written in-depth stories on the return of debtors’ prisons, the police use and abuse of civil asset forfeiture, family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border, and more.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah Stillman {{!}} English |url=https://english.yale.edu/people/full-part-time-lecturers-creative-writers/sarah-stillman |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=english.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref>
==Life==
She graduated from [[Yale University]] in 2006.<ref>http://tyglobalist.org/onlinecontent/blogs/sarah-stillman-pc-06-the-search-for-truth-as-an-investigative-journalist/</ref>
She was a [[Marshall Scholarship|Marshall Scholar]] at [[Oxford University]].


She runs the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, a collaborative public-interest journalism project that seeks to deepen coverage of criminal justice, climate change, migration, and mental health.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yale Investigate Reporting Lab |url=https://www.yirl.org/ |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=www.yirl.org}}</ref> Stillman also teaches narrative non-fiction at Yale University’s English Department.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah Stillman {{!}} English |url=https://english.yale.edu/people/full-part-time-lecturers-creative-writers/sarah-stillman |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=english.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref>
She was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company.<ref>http://www.truthdig.com/sarah_stillman</ref>


In 2016, Stillman became founding director of the Global Migration Program at [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism]], where she taught a course on “Gender and Migration” and mentored post-graduate fellows on a range of refugee-related reporting projects.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The New Yorker: When Deportation Is a Death Sentence {{!}} YaleGlobal Online |url=https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/new-yorker-when-deportation-death-sentence |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu}}</ref>
She teaches at [[New York University]].<ref>http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/sarah-stillman/</ref>
She is a staff writer for ''The New Yorker''.<ref>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/sarah_stillman/search?contributorName=Sarah+Stillman</ref>


The rights to a number of her articles in ''The New Yorker'' have been sold to Hollywood filmmakers and studios, including her story on confidential informants, which was acquired in 2014 by Paramount Pictures and Oscar-winning writer/producer William Monahan.<ref>{{Cite web |title=‘The Departed’s William Monahan Making Pic From New Yorker Exposé On Drug Cop Misuse Of Kid Snitches |url=https://www.imdb.com/news/ni57778996/ |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Works==

*''Soul Searching Journal: A Guide To Self-Discovery For Girls'', Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2001, ISBN 9781582700564
Stillman was elected in 2020 to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]], which includes “world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs … who promote nonpartisan recommendations that advance the public good.”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-19 |title=Sarah Stillman {{!}} American Academy of Arts and Sciences |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/sarah-stillman |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=www.amacad.org |language=en}}</ref>

==Education==
Stillman graduated from [[Georgetown Day School]] in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timesgazette.com/news/24052/t-g-publisher-part-of-2-day-d-c-symposium-on-the-united-states-in-the-age-of-trump|title=T-G publisher part of 2-day D.C. symposium on 'The United States in the Age of Trump' - Times Gazette|date=2018-02-09|website=www.timesgazette.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> and graduated ''summa cum laude with exceptional distinction'' from [[Yale University]] in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tyglobalist.org/onlinecontent/blogs/sarah-stillman-pc-06-the-search-for-truth-as-an-investigative-journalist/|title=Sarah Stillman (PC '06): the search for truth as an Investigative Journalist|date=2012-02-09|website=The Yale Globalist|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> While in college, she founded and edited an interdisciplinary feminist journal, ''Manifesta'',<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://news.yale.edu/2005/05/26/yale-student-wins-first-prize-ethics-essay-contest|title=Yale Student Wins First Prize in Ethics Essay Contest|date=2005-05-26|website=YaleNews|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> and co-directed the Student Legal Action Movement, a group devoted to reforming the [[Incarceration in the United States|American prison system]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2005/11/29/four-seniors-win-marshall-scholarship/|title=Four seniors win Marshall Scholarship|last1=Hill|first1=Tyler|last2=Scheinman|first2=Ted Scheinman|website=yaledailynews.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19|date=29 November 2005 }}</ref> At Yale, Stillman taught poetry and writing at to inmates at the men’s maximum-security prison in Cheshire, CT.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah Stillman {{!}} English |url=https://english.yale.edu/people/full-part-time-lecturers-creative-writers/sarah-stillman |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=english.yale.edu |language=en}}</ref>

Stillman was a [[Marshall Scholarship|Marshall Scholar]] at [[Oxford University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.marshallscholarship.org/scholars/profiles/2006scholars/s-z|title=Scholar Names S-Z|website=www.marshallscholarship.org|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> In 2009, she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.truthdig.com/author/sarah_stillman/|title=Sarah Stillman, Author at|website=Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref>

She was a visiting scholar at [[New York University]] and has taught at [[Columbia University]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Columbia Journalism School’s Sarah Stillman Receives a MacArthur "Genius Grant" |url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/columbia-journalism-schools-sarah-stillman-receives-macarthur-genius-grant |website=Columbia University}}</ref> and at [[Yale University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/|title=NYU Journalism - Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute|website=NYU Journalism|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> She is also a staff writer for ''The'' ''New Yorker''.<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/sarah_stillman/search?contributorName=Sarah+Stillman Search : The New Yorker<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Awards==
In 2005, Stillman was awarded the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.<ref name=":0" />

She was the recipient of the inaugural Reporting Award from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at [[New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute|New York University]] in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah Stillman |url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/awards-and-fellowships/the-reporting-award/recipients/sarah-stillman/ |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=NYU Journalism |language=en-US}}</ref>

Stillman won the 2012 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for her reporting for ''The New Yorker'' from Iraq and Afghanistan on labor abuses and human trafficking on United States military bases.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://english.yale.edu/people/full-part-time-lecturers-creative-writers/sarah-stillman|title=Sarah Stillman {{!}} English|website=english.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref> She won a second National Magazine Award for Public Interest in 2021 for her article in ''The New Yorker'' on the deaths of immigrants deported by the U.S.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NEW YORKER, TIMES MAGAZINE AND TOPIC WIN TOP HONORS AT NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARDS |url=https://asme.memberclicks.net/new-yorker--times-magazine-and-topic-win-top-honors-at-national-magazine-awards |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=asme.memberclicks.net}}</ref>

She is also the recipient of the [[Overseas Press Club]]'s Joe and Laurie Dine Award for international human-rights reporting, the [[The Hillman Prize|Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism]], and the [[Michael Kelly Award]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://brown.columbia.edu/portfolio/sarah-stillman/|title=Sarah Stillman – Brown Institute|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://today.uci.edu/event/sarah_stillman_staff_writer_the_new_yorker_when_deportation_is_a_death_sentence|title=When Deportation is a Death Sentence: Sarah Stillman on Immigration and Criminal Justice|website=UCI Today|language=en|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref>

Stillman won the 2013 Front Page Award from the [[Newswomen's Club of New York|Newswomen’s Club of New York]] for in-depth reporting on police who seize citizens’ assets without trial in a process called civil forfeiture.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2013 Award Recipients and Photo Gallery |url=https://www.newswomensclubnewyork.com/2013-front-page-awards |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=THE NEWSWOMEN'S CLUB OF NEW YORK |language=en-US}}</ref> She also won the Molly National Journalism Prize in 2013.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MOLLY National Journalism Prizes |url=https://www.texasobserver.org/molly-awards/ |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=The Texas Observer |language=en-US}}</ref>

Stillman received the New America Award from the [[Society of Professional Journalists]] for her reporting in 2015 on the lucrative migrant-extortion industry in the U.S. border region. “Stillman took great risks to accompany migrants along the dangerous 3,000-mile trail from Central America through Mexico to the United States,” the award citation stated.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SPJ |title=Stillman receives SPJ New America Award for migrant-extortion industry report |url=https://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=1442 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=www.spj.org}}</ref>

In 2016, the [[John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]] awarded Stillman a MacArthur fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/972/|title=Sarah Stillman - MacArthur Foundation|website=www.macfound.org|access-date=2019-02-19}}</ref>

She reported and voiced “The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis” for WNYC Studios, which won the national [[Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association)|Edward R. Murrow Award]] for best radio news documentary in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2022 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners - Radio Television Digital News Association |url=https://www.rtdna.org/2022-national-edward-r-murrow-award-winners |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=www.rtdna.org}}</ref>

In 2020, her essay “Like a Monarch” appeared in '''[[All We Can Save]]''', a collection of essays and poetry that highlights a wide range of women's voices in the environmental movement.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Like The Monarch, Human Migrations During Climate Change {{!}} How to Save a Planet |url=https://gimletmedia.com/shows/howtosaveaplanet/rnh9x38 |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=Gimlet |language=en}}</ref> Stillman’s work also appears in '''[[The Best American Magazine Writing 2007|The Best American Magazine Writing]]''' 2012<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-best-american-magazine-writing-2012/9780231162234 |title=The Best American Magazine Writing 2012 |date=December 2012 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-16223-4 |editor-last=Holt |editor-first=Sid}}</ref> and '''The Best American Magazine Writing''' 2017.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-best-american-magazine-writing-2017/9780231181594 |title=The Best American Magazine Writing 2017 |date=December 2017 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-54365-1 |editor-last=Holt |editor-first=Sid}}</ref>

In 2024, as a staff writer of ''[[The New Yorker]]'', she won a [[Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting]] for her coverage of troubling injustices in felony murder prosecutions in the U.S.<ref name=":1" />

==Selected bibliography==
{{Expand list|date=December 2015}}

*{{cite book|author=Stillman, Sarah|others=Illustrated by Susan Gross|title=Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself|location=Hillsboro, Oregon|publisher=Beyond Words|year=2000}}
*{{cite book |author=Stillman, Sarah |author-mask=1 |title=Soul searching journal : a girl's guide to finding herself |location=New York |publisher=Simon Pulse/Beyond Words |year=2001}}
*{{cite book|author=Stillman, Sarah|author-mask=1|others=Illustrated by Susan Gross|title=Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself|location=New York|publisher=Simon Pulse|year=2012|isbn=978-1582703039|version=Updated ed.|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/soulsearchinggir00stil}}
*{{cite magazine |author=Stillman, Sarah |author-mask=1 |date=April 8, 2013 |title=Up in the air |department=Goings on About Town. Dept. of Hobbyists |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |volume=89 |issue=8 |pages=24, 26 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/08/up-in-the-air-9 |access-date=2015-12-21}}


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/just-out-of-frame/ An interview with Alex Carp at Guernica magazine]
*[http://stillmanjournalism.wordpress.com/ Official website]
*[http://stillmanjournalism.wordpress.com/ Official website]
*{{cite news|title=A Conversation with Sarah Stillman|url=http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2012/04/a-conversation-with-sarah-stillman/|accessdate=21 February 2013|newspaper=The New Journal.|date=13 April 2012}}
*{{cite news|title=A Conversation with Sarah Stillman|url=http://www.thenewjournalatyale.com/2012/04/a-conversation-with-sarah-stillman/|access-date=21 February 2013|newspaper=The New Journal.|date=13 April 2012}}
*{{cite news|title=Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown into Danger, Young Informants are Drug War’s Latest Victims|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/20/throwaways_recruited_by_police_thrown_into|accessdate=21 February 2013|newspaper=Democracy Now|date=February 20, 2013}}
*{{cite news|title=Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown into Danger, Young Informants are Drug War's Latest Victims|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/20/throwaways_recruited_by_police_thrown_into|access-date=21 February 2013|newspaper=Democracy Now|date=February 20, 2013}}

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Latest revision as of 07:12, 28 June 2024

Sarah Stillman
Born1984 (age 39–40)
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
EducationGeorgetown Day School
Alma materYale University,
Oxford University
Notable awardsGeorge Polk Award (2012),
Hillman Prize (2012),
MacArthur Fellow (2016),
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting (2024)

Sarah Stillman is an American professor, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine,[1] and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist focusing on immigration policy,[2] the criminal justice system,[3] and the impacts of climate change on workers.[4] Stillman won a National Magazine Award in 2012 for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan and again in 2019 for her article in The New Yorker on deportation as a death sentence.[5] She won a 2012 George Polk Award for her reporting on the high-risk use of young people as confidential informants in the war on drugs,[6][7] and a second Polk Award in 2021 for coverage of migrant workers and climate change.[8] She also won the 2012 Hillman Prize.[9] In 2016, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.[10] She won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage inThe New Yorker[11] about troubling injustices in felony murder prosecutions in the U.S.

Her investigative reporting has shed light on profiteering in key areas of U.S. life, particularly prisons and jails;[12] immigration detention facilities;[13] disaster recovery programs; and U.S. war zone contracting.[14] She has written in-depth stories on the return of debtors’ prisons, the police use and abuse of civil asset forfeiture, family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border, and more.[15]

She runs the Yale Investigative Reporting Lab, a collaborative public-interest journalism project that seeks to deepen coverage of criminal justice, climate change, migration, and mental health.[16] Stillman also teaches narrative non-fiction at Yale University’s English Department.[17]

In 2016, Stillman became founding director of the Global Migration Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she taught a course on “Gender and Migration” and mentored post-graduate fellows on a range of refugee-related reporting projects.[18]

The rights to a number of her articles in The New Yorker have been sold to Hollywood filmmakers and studios, including her story on confidential informants, which was acquired in 2014 by Paramount Pictures and Oscar-winning writer/producer William Monahan.[19]

Stillman was elected in 2020 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which includes “world leaders in the arts and sciences, business, philanthropy, and public affairs … who promote nonpartisan recommendations that advance the public good.”[20]

Education

[edit]

Stillman graduated from Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C.,[21] and graduated summa cum laude with exceptional distinction from Yale University in 2006.[22] While in college, she founded and edited an interdisciplinary feminist journal, Manifesta,[23] and co-directed the Student Legal Action Movement, a group devoted to reforming the American prison system.[24] At Yale, Stillman taught poetry and writing at to inmates at the men’s maximum-security prison in Cheshire, CT.[25]

Stillman was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University.[26] In 2009, she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company.[27]

She was a visiting scholar at New York University and has taught at Columbia University[28] and at Yale University.[29] She is also a staff writer for The New Yorker.[30]

Awards

[edit]

In 2005, Stillman was awarded the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.[23]

She was the recipient of the inaugural Reporting Award from the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University in 2010.[31]

Stillman won the 2012 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for her reporting for The New Yorker from Iraq and Afghanistan on labor abuses and human trafficking on United States military bases.[32] She won a second National Magazine Award for Public Interest in 2021 for her article in The New Yorker on the deaths of immigrants deported by the U.S.[33]

She is also the recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for international human-rights reporting, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and the Michael Kelly Award.[34][35]

Stillman won the 2013 Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York for in-depth reporting on police who seize citizens’ assets without trial in a process called civil forfeiture.[36] She also won the Molly National Journalism Prize in 2013.[37]

Stillman received the New America Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her reporting in 2015 on the lucrative migrant-extortion industry in the U.S. border region. “Stillman took great risks to accompany migrants along the dangerous 3,000-mile trail from Central America through Mexico to the United States,” the award citation stated.[38]

In 2016, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded Stillman a MacArthur fellowship.[39]

She reported and voiced “The Essential Workers of the Climate Crisis” for WNYC Studios, which won the national Edward R. Murrow Award for best radio news documentary in 2022.[40]

In 2020, her essay “Like a Monarch” appeared in All We Can Save, a collection of essays and poetry that highlights a wide range of women's voices in the environmental movement.[41] Stillman’s work also appears in The Best American Magazine Writing 2012[42] and The Best American Magazine Writing 2017.[43]

In 2024, as a staff writer of The New Yorker, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage of troubling injustices in felony murder prosecutions in the U.S.[11]

Selected bibliography

[edit]
  • Stillman, Sarah (2000). Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself. Illustrated by Susan Gross. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words.
  • — (2001). Soul searching journal : a girl's guide to finding herself. New York: Simon Pulse/Beyond Words.
  • — (2012). Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself. Updated ed. Illustrated by Susan Gross. New York: Simon Pulse. ISBN 978-1582703039.
  • — (April 8, 2013). "Up in the air". Goings on About Town. Dept. of Hobbyists. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 8. pp. 24, 26. Retrieved 2015-12-21.

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