Photo by Georgia Hilmer.
Hello, I’m Sanaë. Thank you for stopping by.
I’m a novelist and cookbook writer. My first novel, The Margot Affair, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. My second novel, Morning Child, will be published by Riverhead on July 6, 2027.
I’m the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and earned my MFA from Columbia University, where I taught essay writing. I’ve worked as a cookbook editor at Phaidon and Martha Stewart, and in 2024, published my debut cookbook, Hot Sheet, that I wrote with Olga Massov. I’m also the Cake Zine recipe editor.
I was born in Paris to a Japanese mother and French father, and was raised in France and Australia. I live in Brooklyn, New York.