Winner of the 2025 GLCA
New Writers Award, Poetry
California Book Awards
Gold Winner, Poetry
Winner of the 2024
Julie Suk Award
recommended by Literary Hub, The Millions, and Electric Literature
featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, BBC London,
and The Washington Post
about sarah
Sarah Ghazal Ali is a Pakistani American writer and editor. She is the author of the poetry collection Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award, California Book Award, and Julie Suk Award, and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, among others.
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A finalist for a 2025 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, she has been awarded The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, and her poems have appeared in journals and outlets including The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series.
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Sarah is a Stadler and Kundiman fellow, the poetry editor for West Branch, and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. She lives and teaches in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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For longer and shorter bios, see here.
select poems
"Apotheosis"
"My Faith Gets Grime
Under its Nails"
"Matrilineage [Umbilicus]"
For a complete list of publications, see here.
IN THE PRESS
“These powerful, resonant poems herald an exciting new voice.”
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