Sarah LaBrie is a TV writer and the author of No One Gets to Fall Apart, a memoir published by HarperCollins in 2024. The book was named a New York Times Editors’ Pick and Notable Book of the Year and was highlighted by Elle, NPR, and Esquire as a best memoir of the year. Lorrie Moore calls No One Gets to Fall Apart “a brilliant memoir... a triumph of every kind of literary perseverance,” and the Los Angeles Times hails it as “extraordinary.”
LaBrie has also written for The Guardian, Guernica, Joyland, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, and other publications. Her libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Apollo Theater, and she has written on television series including Minx, Blindspotting, Made for Love, and Love, Victor.
She has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Yaddo, Sewanee, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and was nominated for Best Television Comedy Script at the 2024 Women’s Image Network Awards for her work on Blindspotting.
LaBrie earned her BA from Brown University in Comparative Literature and Literary Arts and an MFA from New York University as a Writers in the Schools Fellow. She grew up in Houston’s Third Ward and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, filmmaker Justin Lerner, and their dogs. She teaches in the low-residency MFA of the Americas program at Stetson University.