Sarah Sentilles

Sarah Sentilles is an American author. Her four books include Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton, A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit, Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, and Draw Your Weapons. She has a Masters of Divinity and a doctorate in theology from Harvard Divinity School, studying under Gordon D. Kaufman.

Her book Draw Your Weapons won the 2018 PEN Award for Creative Nonfiction.

Published works Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton (Beacon, 2005) A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit (Harcourt, 2008) Breaking Up with God: A Love Story (HarperOne, 2011) Draw Your Weapons (Random House, 2017) Stranger Care: A Memoir of Loving What Isn't Ours (Random House, 2021)