Natasha Sajé

Profile

Natasha Sajé is the author of five books of poems: The Future Will Call You Something Else (Tupelo, 2023); Vivarium (Tupelo, 2014); Bend (Tupelo, 2004); Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994); and Special Delivery (Diode Editions chapbook, 2021). Her prose books are a postmodern poetry handbook, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory (Michigan, 2014) and a memoir-in-essays, Terroir: Love, Out of Place (Trinity, 2020).

Honors include the Bannister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College; the Robert Winner and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards from the Poetry Society of America; a Pushcart prize; the 2002 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize; a Fulbright Scholarship to Slovenia; a Camargo Fellowship in France; Lambda, IPPY, Foreword, and Pen Finalist prizes; and grants from the states of Maryland and Utah. Her poems, reviews, and essays appear in many anthologies and periodicals, including The New York Times; Kenyon Review; New Republic; Paris Review; Best American Poems; Missouri Review; Ploughshares; and The Writer’s Chronicle. Sajé is professor emerita of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and has been teaching in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program since 1996.

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