Sarah Marshall

Sarah Marshall is an American writer and podcaster known for her piece Remote Control: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the Spectacles of Female Power and Pain as well as her focus on telling the stories of maligned women throughout history, including many episodes on the topic in her podcast You're Wrong About, previously cohosted by journalist and writer Michael Hobbes. Marshall has also had a long-running history of writing about serial killers. Education and career Marshall received her undergraduate education, as well as her MFA, at Portland State University before continuing to teach at the same university. Tonya Harding In 2014, Marshall published Remote Control in The Believer, an 11,000-word essay positing that Tonya Harding was "unfairly vilified" by the media in order to better shape and sell a story. Marshall's piece was widely recognized by media companies including a feature by Time, and her piece is oft-referred to as a defense of a misunderstood woman in history. Marshall has said in interviews that she has never met Harding, a fellow Oregonian and Pacific Northwesterner, despite being in talks with Harding's manager at one point. She stated that meeting Harding is not something she feels is necessary, noting "I don't think [Tonya Harding] would want to meet some woman who has all these thoughts about her career. She seems happy."