Dr. Sarah Green

Sarah Green is a poet, nonfiction writer, and singer-songwriter. She is the author of two poetry books: The Deletions (Editor’s Choice, Akron Poetry Series, 2025) and Earth Science (421 Atlanta, 2016). She is the editor of Welcome to the Neighborhood: An Anthology of American Coexistence (Ohio University Press, 2019).

Select honors include two Pushcart Prizes in poetry and fellowships to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. Her poetry has been anthologized in several collections including the Incredible Sestina Anthology and Best New Poets 2012 and an essay of hers will appear in 2027 in the anthology American Occupation: Dispatches from Minnesota’s Resistance to ICE (UMN Press).

She has over twenty years of experience teaching poetry writing both within and outside of the academy, to students ages 8 to 80, at nonprofits, artist’s retreats, in elementary school classrooms, in libraries, city parks, South Boston halfway houses and Harvard seminars.

Green is also the founder and host of Emergency Poems, a biannual literary reading series that fundraises for humanitarian aid in the aftermath of global catastrophes. More on this initiative can be found at emergencypoems.substack.com.