Sarah Maclay

Sarah Maclay's most recent release is Nightfall Marginalia, a poetry collection of nocturnes and ekphrastics. Earlier collections include a braided collaboration with Holaday Mason: The "She" Series: A Venice Correspondence (What Books Press). Music for the Black Room (2011) and The White Bride (2008, both U of Tampa Press) followed her debut full-length, Whore, which won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of three chapbooks, as well as “Fugue States Coming Down the Hall” (published in Scenarios: Scripts to Perform). Her poems and criticism have appeared in FIELD, Ploughshares, Blackbird, Manoa, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present, The Writer’s Chronicle, Poetry Daily, VerseDaily and many other spots, including Poetry International, where she long served as Book Review Editor. A recipient of a 2016 COLA Fellowship, a Yaddo residency, and a Pushcart Special Mention, she earned a BA from Oberlin and an MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She splits her time between her native Montana and California, where she teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University, and mini-master classes at Beyond Baroque.