Meet Sasha Carney ’23!
Growing up in both Ottawa, Canada, and London, England, Sasha’s early interest in farming and cooking was informed by their maternal family’s practices of farming pigs, bees, and various vegetables in Southeast England. As a fiction writer in Yale’s creative writing concentration, they are fascinated by how people write both critically and creatively about food, agriculture, and sustainability. Sasha’s 2022 Summer Intern independent project took the form of a short story centred around a field trip to an Ottawa Valley sugar shack (cabane à sucre) which examines the intersections of nationalism, colonialism, sex, and power in Canada’s maple sugar industry. While coming up with story ideas, they love any chance to get their hands dirty, especially when it comes to weeding beds or prepping pizza dough! Outside of the farm, they are the outgoing co-editor-in-chief of Broad Recognition. and spend their time serving up comfort food at the Silliman Buttery, editing papers at the Yale College Writing Centre, throwing together flavours in their home kitchen, and taking advantage of $7 Bowtie Tuesdays.