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Sarah Gorham is a poet, essayist, & retired editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books, which she co-founded with her husband, award-winning poet Jeffrey Skinner. Both are widely published & lauded.
JEFFREY SKINNER has authored 11 books of poetry, most recently Sober Ghost (C&R Press, 2024). Selected works include: A Guide to Forgetting (Graywolf Press, 1988, winner in the National Poetry Series); The Company of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series, 1992); Salt Mother, Animal Dad (chosen by C.K. Williams for the Center for the Book Arts Chapbook Award); The 6.5 Practices of Moderately Successful Poets (Sarabande Books, 2012, Indies winner for Humor); Glaciology (Southern Illinois University Press, 2013, winner of the Crab Orchard Poetry Award); and Chance Divine (Oberlin Press, 2017, winner of the Field Prize).
His many honors include receiving both a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry and an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for literature in 2015. He has also been awarded several prestigious writing residencies and has received recognition or support from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Howard Foundation, and the state arts agencies of Connecticut, Delaware, and Kentucky.
SARAH GORHAM is a poet and essayist, most recently the essay collection Funeral Playlist which was released by Etruscan Press in August 2024. She is the author of Alpine Apprentice (2017), which made the short list for 2018 PEN/Diamonstein Award in the Essay, and Study in Perfect (2014), selected by Bernard Cooper for the 2013 AWP Award in Creative Nonfiction. Both were published by University of Georgia Press. Gorham is also the author of four collections of poetry— Bad Daughter (2011), The Cure (2003), The Tension Zone (1996), and Don’t Go Back to Sleep (1989). Other honors include grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, three state arts councils, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
She is retired co-founder and editor-in-chief at Sarabande Books, an independent, nonprofit, literary publisher. The press was selected as the inaugural winner of the AWP Small Press Publisher Award in 2013, And recently, CLMP chose Sarabande as 2022 winner of the Golden Colophon Award for Paradigm Independent Publishing.
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EVENT TYPE: | Books, Writing & Authors |
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