Sarah Sweeney was born and raised in the Southern city of Greensboro, North Carolina, where she began writing poems, stories, and plays from a young age. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, and holds a BA in English from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and an M.F.A. from Emerson College in Boston, where she currently lives. She is a writer for the Harvard Gazette.
Write her at sarahkathleensweeney at gmail dot com
News...
- March 6 for AWP and March 21 at the Middle East in Cambridge in support of Anne Champion's Reluctant Mistress book launch! Check the events page for details!!
- Barrelhouse nominated me for a Pushcart Prize for my essay "Before Adrian Grenier Got Famous"!
- Rattle will publish my poem, Tripping at the NC Agricultural State Fair, in its Southern Poets issue, forthcoming in March!
- Listen to a recording of a reading I did this past September, as part of the U35 Reading Series!
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