Sarah Ann Winn

Poet

Manassas, VA
Virginia US
Email: 
sprovence@gmail.com
Website: 
bluebirdwords.com
Twitter/X: 
@blueaisling

Author's Bio

Sarah Ann Winn’s first book, Alma Almanac, was selected by Elaine Equi as winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize, and was released by Barrow Street Press in 2017. She’s the author of five chapbooks, the most recent of which is Ever After the End Matter. In 2016, six poems from her poetic sequence “Dot & Bo” won Radar Poetry’s Coniston Prize, judged by Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Her writing has appeared in many publications, online and in print, including Five Points, Kenyon Review Online, Massachusetts Review, Smartish Pace and Tupelo Quarterly, among others. Sarah serves as Reviews Editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal. She currently teaches online at the Writers Center and at the Loft Literary Center.

Education: 
George Mason University MFA
Writers Retreats: 
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Bramble + Thorn (Porkbelly Press, 2017)
,
Come as You Are (Anomalous Press, 2017)
,
New Poetry from the Midwest (New American Press, 2017)
,
The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements with Gerard Manley Hopkins (Clemson University Press, 2016)
,
Full: an anthology of moon poems (Two of Cups Press, 2015)
Book:
Alma Almanac (Barrow Street Press, 2017)
Chapbooks:
Ever After the End Matter (Porkbelly Press, 2019)
,
Field Guide to Alma Avenue and Frew Drive (Essay Press, 2017)
,
Haunting the Last House on Holland Island, Fallen into the Bay (Porkbelly Press, 2016)
,
Portage (Sundress Publications, 2014)
Prizes won: 

Winner, Prime Number Magazine September Flash Contest, 2017

Winner of Digital Chapbook Contest, Essay Press, Selected by Krystal Languell

Winner, Barrow Street Book Prize, Barrow Street Press, 2016, Selected by Elaine Equi

Winner, Coniston Prize, Radar Poetry, 2016, Selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Winner, Luminaire Award, Alternating Current Press, 2016

Winner, Gabriela Mistral Poetry Prize, Cobalt Review, 2014 

Winner, Virginia Downs Award, George Mason University, Selected by C. Dale Young, 2013

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Favorite authors: 
Mary Ruefle Denise Duhamel Lynda Barry Camille Dungy Aimee Nezhukumatathil Terry Pratchett (&&& ... I'm a former school librarian, so I have a thousand favorites!)
What I'm reading now: 
The Octopus Museum by Brenda Shaughnessy, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson, eds.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Raised in: 
Akron, OH
Ohio
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Last update: Jan 28, 2021