THEOPHANIES
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about sarah
Sarah Ghazal Ali is a Pakistani American writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, among others.
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She has been awarded The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, and her poems have been published in journals and outlets such as The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series.
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A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. She lives and teaches in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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For longer and shorter bios, see here.
select poems
"Apotheosis"
"My Faith Gets Grime
Under its Nails"
"Matrilineage [Umbilicus]"
For a complete list of publications, see here.
IN THE PRESS
“These powerful, resonant poems herald an exciting new voice.”
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