Sarah Rose Nordgren is the author of Feathers: A Bird Hat Wearer’s Journal (Essay Press, 2024), which won the Essay Press Book Prize; the poetry collections Darwin’s Mother (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) and Best Bones (Pittsburgh, 2014), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize; and the chapbook The Creation Museum (Small Harbor Publishing, 2022). She serves as Emerging Poet Feature editor for 32 Poems and is founding director of The School for Living Futures, an experimental project dedicated to shifting culture in a time of climate change. (updated 4/2025)