Sarah Ghazal Ali

Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award. Winner of The Sewanee Review Poetry Prize, her poems and essays have been published in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Narrative Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and residencies from Tin House, the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, Kundiman, the Hambidge Center, and others. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was a Juniper and MFA Fellow, and is the poetry editor for West Branch.

Areas of Study

• Form in poetry
• Asian/Asian-American poetics
• Archival poetry
• The lyric essay

Fall 2024 Courses

• ENGL 150-03 Introduction to  Creative Writing
• ENGL 280-01 Crafts of Writing: Poetry; Form and (In)Fidelity