SARAH M. SALA is a poet, educator, and native Michigander. She is the author of Devil’s Lake (Tolsun Books 2020), a Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Press Awards, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry, finalist for the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Poetry Award, finalist for the Eric Hoffer Medal Provocateur Award, Longlisted for the International Poetry Book Awards, and a 2021 PSV North American Poetry Book Award Semifinalist. As well as the chapbook, The Ghost Assembly Line (Finishing Line Press 2016). Her poem “Hydrogen” was featured in the “Elements” episode of NPR's hit show Radiolab in collaboration with Emotive Fruition.

She is the founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop, and former Poetry editor at the Bellevue Literary Review 2018-2023. Sarah was a
co-founding editor at The Oleander Review, International Editor for Washington Square Review, manuscript screener for Alice James Books, and poetry reader for Epiphany Magazine.

Sarah's awards and honors include: a finalist for the 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and the 2019 Lorene Pouncey Award. She earned her M.F.A in Poetry from New York University in 2012, and a B.A in English & Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in 2008. She is a 2019 Poets House Fellow, as well as a 2016 & 2018 Home School Fellow. As an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, she won an Academy of American Poets University & College Prize, the Marjorie Rapport Award for Poetry, an Avery Hopwood Award for Nonfiction, and a Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship. Her work appears in BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southampton Review, and The Stockholm Review of Literature, among others. Sarah is a an associate professor of writing at New York University, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Write to her at sarahmariesala@gmail.com.

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Sarah M. Sala is a poet, educator, and native Michigander. Her debut collection, Devil’s Lake (Tolsun 2020) was named a Distinguished Favorite for the Independent Press Awards, a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, a Publishing Triangle Award, and an Eric Hoffer Provocateur Award. She is the founding director of Office Hours Poetry Workshop, and an associate professor of writing at New York University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in POETRY, BOMB, The Southampton Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Columbia Journal. www.sarahmsala.com