Sasha Hom

Sasha Hom is a text-based artist. Her first novella, Sidework, was a New Immigrant Writing Series selection and was published by Black Lawrence Press in March of 2025. Her fiction and non-fiction can be found in The Millions, Leon Literary Review, Exposition Review, Kweli Journal, Literary Mama, and Brink. She is a recipient of an Elizabeth George Award, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant, a Vermont Artist Development Award, a Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing, and is a Holden Scholarship awardee. She is a goat farmer and a homeschooling mother of four. After a decade of living in canvas tents in California, her and her family fled wildfires and now now live in a yurt on 600-acres of cooperatively owned land in Central Vermont, where she finds herself frequently cold.

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.