Sarah Mangold

Sarah Mangold is a NEA fellow and author of Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners (Fordham University Press, POL Prize), Giraffes of Devotion (Kore Press), Electrical Theories of Femininity (Black Radish), and Household Mechanics (New Issues, selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize). She is the recipient of grants and support from MacDowell, Millay, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Willapa Bay Air, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Artists Trust, Centrum, Seattle Arts Commission, and the Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor Labs. She was the founder and editor of Bird Dog, a print journal of innovative writing and art which focused on long poems and the work of new women writers. She received her BA in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma, and a MFA in Creative from San Francisco State University. Born in Nebraska, and raised in Oklahoma, she now lives and works in Edmonds, Washington.