Sarah Maclay is the author of Music for the Black Room, The White Bride and Whore (all, U of Tampa), as well as three limited edition chapbooks. In 2013, The Huffington Post shortlisted her as one of five American poets to watch. Her poems and criticism have appeared in APR, Ploughshares, FIELD, The Writer’s Chronicle, Poetry Daily, VerseDaily, The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present, Poetry International, where she serves as Book Review Editor, and numerous other journals. Her short stage piece Fugue States Coming Down the Hall was anthologized in Scenarios: Scripts to Perform. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Special Mention, a 2009 Grisham fellowship, and the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. She teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University and conducts workshops at The Ruskin Art Club and Beyond Baroque.

(photo credit: Holaday Mason & D. H. Dowling)

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