Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of THEOPHANIES (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award.
A 2022 Djanikian Scholar and winner of The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her poems appear in POETRY, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, The Yale Review, Poem-a-Day, Guernica, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
A Stadler Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch. She has received fellowships and residencies from Tin House, the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, the Hambidge Center, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, and others. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was a Juniper and MFA Fellow, and currently lives in the Bay Area, California.
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Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of THEOPHANIES (Alice James Books, 2024). A Djanikian Scholar and winner of The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her poems appear in American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, Guernica, and elsewhere. A former Stadler Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and lives in the Bay Area, California.