Sarah Ghazal Ali

Poet

Saint Paul, MN
Minnesota US
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Author's Bio

Sarah Ghazal Ali is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the author of THEOPHANIES (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors' Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. Winner of The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. 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 currently lives in the Twin Cities. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Best New Poets 2022 (University of Virginia Press, 2023)
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New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (Red Hen Press, 2021)
Book:
Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Asian American, South Asian
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Last update: Sep 27, 2024