Praise for The Grand Scheme of Things

I devoured these brilliant stories, each of which illuminates the glimmering mystery of everyday life. We have all been here  - puzzling through loss, navigating love, dancing always, always, against eternity -  yet Cedeño's wisdom makes it all new. I read this collection ever more grateful for a true storyteller's insight, generosity, and companionship along this journey of ours; and I highly recommend that you also give yourself that all too rare gift.

—Robin Black, Author, If I loved you, I would tell you this

The Grand Scheme of Things, this bold new collection by Sarah Cedeño, exquisitely traces its characters’ profound inhibitions toward their heartbreaking root causes. To read these stories is to be gripped by an uncanny sense of recognition. Cedeño is a beautiful writer.

—John McManus, author of Fox Tooth Heart and Bitter Milk

Sarah Cedeño’s debut story collection, The Grand Scheme of Things, is forthcoming from Harbor Editions in July of 2025. Her collection of essays, Not Something We Discuss Often, was published by Harbor Editions in November 2022. Her essay "The Visible Woman" was selected by Vivian Gornick as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2022. Her work has appeared in Brevity, Salamander, The Journal, The Pinch, The Baltimore Review, Hippocampus Magazine, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. Sarah holds an MFA from Goddard College. She lives in Brockport, NY with her husband, two sons, some old ghosts, and two German shepherds. She teaches writing at her alma mater, SUNY Brockport.