Sasha Hom

Sasha Hom lives off-grid in small canvas and wooden structures on a 600-acre land co-op amid 5,800 acres of conserved land situated within Vermont, an odd-shaped state (but aren’t they all?) upon a very large continent amid oceans. She has four children, many goats, fowl, and a dog. In addition to homeschooling her children and herding small ruminants, she runs Bottomless Well, a refuge/laboratory for arts and ecologically oriented folk, and works on the farms of others.

She was a Holden Minority Scholar at Warren Wilson College where she earned her MFA. She is a recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Brink Hybrid Literary Award, and a 2023 Justice, Activism and Localization Grant. Her work can be found in Exposition Review, Brink, The Leon Literary Review, The Millions, Literary Mama, Kweli Journal, Viz. Inter-Arts, Journal of Korean Adoption Studies, and anthologies.

Sidework

Sasha Hom’s Sidework is a lyric, page-turning novella about a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four. During her busy Sunday shift waiting tables, her customers—rock stars, locals, and the Grim Reaper himself—bring her face to face with larger issues of motherhood, suicide, environmental degradation, death, and belonging. In this thought-provoking and often humorous debut from award-winning author Sasha Hom, herself a Korean adoptee and mother of four, the protagonist loses her home when the intentional community/commune where she and her family used to live—off-grid, in a canvas tent on three hundred acres—is sold.

Intricately woven, lyric, and atmospherically layered, Hom’s debut marries the mystic and mythic with the mundane while taking on issues of immigration, colonization, climate change, homophobia, motherhood, and adoption.