Sarah Getty
Sarah Getty grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, graduated from Stanford University, and has a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been Poet in the Schools, has led creative writing workshops for the Bedford Center for the Arts and the Bedford Free Public Library, and teaches the writing of poetry and fiction in her living room.
Sarah’s second book of poems, Bring Me Her Heart, has just been issued by Higganum Hill Books to critical acclaim. Her first collection, The Land of Milk and Honey (University of South Carolina Press, James Dickey Contemporary American Poetry Series), won a Cambridge Poetry Award in 2002. In 2004 she also received the New England Poetry Club’s Barbara Bradley Award. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Eleventh Muse, and other leading literary magazines and are forthcoming in Calyx and Ekphrasis. Her poem “Ciphers” has been set to music by Adam Grossman. Anthologies carrying Sarah’s work include Birds in the Hand, (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004). In July, 2006 she lead a poetry workshop as Poet-in-Residence at the Villa Vergiliana near Naples, Italy.
Sarah has published fiction in The Iowa Review and The Larcom Review; her short story “Forces” appeared in the anthology Still Going Strong (Haworth Press, November 2005). She is working on a novel about growing up in the Midwest in the Fifties.
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