Natasha Saje

Natasha Sajé was born stateless in Munich, Germany in 1955 and grew up in New York City and northern New Jersey. She earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia (1976), an M.A. from Johns Hopkins (1980), and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park (1995), for a study titled, "'Artful Artlessness': Reading the Coquette in the Novel, 1724-1913."

Her first book of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), was chosen from over 900 manuscripts to win the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize, and was later awarded the Towson State Prize in Literature. Her second collection of poems, Bend, was published by Tupelo Press in 2004 and awarded the Utah Book Award in Poetry. Poems in her third book, Vivarium (Tupelo Press, 2014) received the Alice Fay di Castagnola award from the Poetry Society of America. The book won the 15 Bytes Award. THE FUTURE WILL CALL YOU SOMETHING ELSE, a new book of poems, will be out from Tupelo Press in September 2023.

Her post-modern poetry handbook, Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory, was published by the University of Michigan press in 2014. Her memoir-in-essays, Terroir: Love, Out of Place, was published by Trinity University Press in November 2020. Honors include the Bannister Writer-in-Residence at Sweet Briar College, the Robert Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship to Slovenia, a Camargo Fellowship in France, a Hermitage artist residency, and a Pushcart prize. Sajé is a professor emerita at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and has been teaching in the low residency Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program since 1996. She lives in Washington, DC. www.natashasaje.com