Portrait of Sarah Gorham

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Sarah Gorham

Sarah Gorham is the author, most recently, of Alpine Apprentice: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press, 2017), which made the short list for the PEN/Diamonstein Award in the Essay. She is also the author of four poetry collections, including Bad Daughter (Four Way Books, 2011), The Cure (Four Way Books, 2003), The Tension Zone (Four Way Books, 1996, second edition 1998), and Don’t Go Back to Sleep (Galileo Press, 1989). Her essays and poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, AGNI, Creative Nonfiction, The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2006, and elsewhere. A recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and three state arts councils, she is co-founder and editor- in-chief of Sarabande Books. She resides in Prospect, Kentucky. (updated 4/2022)

AGNI has published the following work:

Three Horses

Essay by Sarah Gorham

Watch Your Language

Poetry by Sarah Gorham

Half Empty/Half Full

Poetry by Sarah Gorham
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