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Sara Wintz is the author of Walking Across A Field We Are Focused On At This Time Now (Ugly Duckling Press), an epic poem about the 20th century exploring the foundations of facts, time, and social identity, and The Lauras (sus press), a digital chapbook written from the p.o.v. of historical figure Laura Ingalls Wilder placed within the video game Oregon Trail. Their poems have been published in journals and anthologies including Chicago Review, Social Text, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Canary. Find her interviews with artists and visionaries at: The Creative Independent and Artpapers. From 2012-2020 Sara contributed daily “poetry news” to the Poetry Foundation’s official blog, Harriet. Sara was born in Los Angeles, California and lives in Providence, Rhode Island. They hold a B.A. in English Literature/Creative Writing from Mills College and M.F.A. in Writing from Bard College.
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Sara Wintz is the author of Walking Across A Field We Are Focused On At This Time Now (Ugly Duckling Press), an epic poem about the 20th century exploring the foundations of facts, time, and social identity, and The Lauras (sus press), a digital chapbook written from the p.o.v. of historical figure Laura Ingalls Wilder placed within the video game Oregon Trail.
On Walking Across A Field We Are Focused On At This Time Now, Arielle Greenberg writes in American Poetry Review: “While the milestones of history included in Walking Across a Field are culled with a feminist mission, the speaker herself is not portrayed as particularly gendered, and, in contrast to the books considered last time and those in the first part of this column, she is not girly. She's confident, empowered: ‘whenever i am ready to go, i will go, too,’ she tells us early on, speaking perhaps about death, but also about the way she's chosen to live her life…”
Find poems in these journals Chicago Review, Social Text, and Tupelo Quarterly and anthologies Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities (Encyclopedia Destructica), Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (Reality Street)and RUFFLES REPAIR AND RITUAL: The Fine Art of Fixing (Dirt Palace Projects).
Sara’s the co-editor of two poetry anthologies that served as exercises in community building: THE FEELING IS MUTUAL (Compline Press) and New Writing from the U.S. and U.K. (Critical Documents). Tyrone Williams reflected on The Feeling Is Mutual in Jacket2: “In other words, this is a collection of manifestos and art that gives endless pleasures to my political and erotic, social and aesthetic, sides, spheres, dimensions, what have you.”
Find her interviews with arts and visionaries at: The Creative Independent, Artpapers, and The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet. They’ve curated poetry events for: Small Press Traffic, Segue Reading Series, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and served on the advisory board of non-profit literary organization Small Press Traffic.
Sara was born in Los Angeles, California and lives in Providence, Rhode Island. In 2023 they were invited to contribute poems to The Word Shelter, a sign/public art project in front of the Wedding Cake House curated by Xander Marro and Pippi Zornoza of Dirt Palace Projects. They earned a B.A. in English Literature/Creative Writing from Mills College and M.F.A. in Writing from Bard College.