Sarah Wendell

Sarah Wendell is the co-founder and current mastermind of Smart Bitches Trashy Books.com, one of the most popular online communities examining romance fiction, now in its 20th year. Sarah is also the host and producer of the long-running Smart Podcast, Trashy Books, featured in Oprah Magazine as one of “21 Best Book Podcasts to Listen to When You’re Not Reading.” Sarah is the author of four books, including Everything I Know About Love, I Learned from Romance Novels, and Lighting the Flames, a contemporary Hanukkah romance novella. Sarah has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, The Today Show, NPR’s The 1A, All Things Considered and on Pop Culture Happy Hour. She has been a guest lecturer at Yale, Princeton, and Duke Universities, and she has been part of a question on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me—twice!