Sara O. Fetherolf
is a poet, essayist, librettist, & storyteller. She was born in Southern California, raised in Tornado Country, and came of age amidst the back roads and abandoned factories of western New Jersey. Sara is the author of Via Combusta, winner of the 2021 New American Poetry Prize, selected by Quan Barry and published by New American Press in November 2022. Her debut work of short fiction, “The Place,” won the Iron Horse Long Story award, and she’s the most recent winner of the Third Coast poetry prize. Her writing has appeared in Missouri Review, Best Microfiction 2023, New Ohio Review, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. She has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from University of Southern California, and is currently an ACLS Leading Edge postdoctoral fellow at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive in Los Angeles. She lives in Long Beach, next to a well-worn stretch of the Pacific Ocean.
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