Sarah's Bio
Sarah McKinstry-Brown is the author of Cradling Monsoons (Blue Light Press, 2010) and This Bright Darkness (Black Lawrence Press, 2019). Born and raised in Albuquerque, Sarah is the recipient of three Nebraska Book Awards, an Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as a Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship in poetry and a Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Award. An Editorial Board Member for Spark Wheel Press, Sarah’s poems appear in RATTLE, Ruminate, Smartish Pace, South Dakota Review, Sugar House Review, West Virginia’s Standardized tests (a beautiful irony given that she was, is, and will always be, a terrible standardized test-taker), and elsewhere. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her husband, poet Matt Mason, and their two children.
Sample Reading
“Breathing
is about giving each seedling a name,
though it may not take.
Hope is backbreaking.
Even in dreams, feel the pull, the till,
turning earth, soil so dark
it becomes night sky, and the seeds
in your hands, stars.
”
Recent Press About Sarah
My interview for the reader.
Two articles featuring my family and career in Omaha Magazine and the Omaha World-Herald.
An article in She Magazine featuring regional poets. Read
A University of Mankato student reading one of my poems for a National Poetry Month Project. View
I am interviewed in les femmes folles. Read
An Interview about This Bright Darkness
in World Literature Today Online. Read