The Poet...Sarah Blackman

Sarah Blackman, Instructor
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Sarah Blackman is a poet, fiction and creative non-fiction author originally from Washington D.C. She graduated from Washington College, summa cum laude, with a BA in English, minor Creative Writing, and earned her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2007 with a primary concentration in fiction and a secondary concentration in poetry. For the past five years she has been teaching composition, creative writing and literature at the University of Alabama where she also served as the fiction editor for the Black Warrior Review. Sarah’s poetry and prose has been published in a number of journals and magazines, including The Gettysburg Review, Third Coast, The National Poetry Review, American Poetry Journal, Oxford American Magazine and The Greensboro Review among others. She has been anthologized in the Poets Against the War Anthology and Best New American Voices, 2006, and was the recipient of the 2006 American Poet’s Prize and the 2007 Laureate Prize for Poetry. Currently, she is the Assistant Prose Editor for DIAGRAM magazine and is at work on a novel set on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.