Sarah V. Schweig's second book, The Ocean in the Next Room, won the Jake Adam York Prize and will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2025. Her first book, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press. She is also the author of the chapbook S (Dancing Girl Press). She is pursuing her PhD in philosophy at The New School for Social Research. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Public Seminar, Tin House, Tourniquet Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Maine.