Sarah Maclay, visiting assistant professor

• phone: 310-568-6248
• email: smaclay@lmu.edu

  Sarah Maclay’s poems, reviews and essays have appeared or are due to appear in American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, FIELD, Hotel Amerika, The Writer’s Chronicle, Solo, Pool, ZZYZYVA, lyric, Ninth Letter, The Laurel Review, Swink, The Journal and numerous other publications including Poetry International, where she serves as book review editor. Her debut full-length, Whore, won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, and she has received an Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship and several Pushcart nominations. She was also a winner of the dA Center for the Arts Poetry Contest, a finalist for the Blue Lynx Prize and a semi-finalist for the Kenyon Review Poetry Prize, the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize and the Tupelo Press First Book Prize. The author of three limited edition chapbooks, Ice from the Belly (Farstarfire), Shadow of Light (Inevitable) and Weeding the Duchess (Black Stone), she holds degrees from Oberlin College and Vermont College, and has most recently been teaching in Los Angeles at LMU, USC and FIDM, as well as conducting workshops both privately and, periodically, at Beyond Baroque. At Loyola Marymount, she teachings creative writing, contemporary poetry, introductory poetry courses and college writing. She is currently completing The White Bride, a manuscript of prose poems.