Sara Backer

Poet and novelist Sara Backer was raised in Massachusetts and Oregon. She earned a BA from Oregon State University, an MA from the University of California at Davis, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of two chapbooks, Scavenger Hunt (dancing girl press, 2018) and Bicycle Lotus (Left Fork, 2015), a hybrid collection of poems and essays which won the 2015 Turtle Island Poetry Award. She has also published a novel, American Fuji (Penguin Putnam, 2001). She received fellowships from the Norton Island Artist Residency Program and Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and has garnered Pushcart nomination for poems, essays, and short stories. After having lived in Costa Rica and Japan, she currently resides in New Hampshire.