Poet / Performer / Educator
Sara Mae is a high fem writer raised on the Chesapeake Bay. Their work speaks to queerness, the surreal, the uncanny, body horror, and intimacy. They are a 2023 Big Ears Music Festival Artist Scholar, a 2022 Tinhouse Summer Workshops Attendee, a 2022 Open Mouth Attendee, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholar. They were a finalist for the 2023 Loraine Williams Prize and will be published in the Georgia Review. Their work also appears in or is forthcoming from FENCE, Waxwing, The Offing, and elsewhere. They are a 2017 Individual World Poetry Slam, 2018 National Poetry Slam, and 2018 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Competitor. Their first chapbook, Priestess of Tankinis, is out via Game Over Books. They write shimmery rock music as The Noisy. They received their MFA from UT Knoxville, where they were also an Associate Poetry Editor for Grist Literary Journal.
Photo by Cassandra Rodriguez.
