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Gorham received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her Bachelor in 1976 from Antioch College.
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Sarah Gorham
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Gorham is author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Bad Daughter (Four Way Books, 2011). Gorham"s poems have been widely published, including in Best American Poetry 2006 and The Nation. Sarabande Books, is an independent, nonprofit, literary press devoted to the publication of poetry, short fiction, and literary nonfiction located in Louisville, Kentucky.
Gorham serves as President and Editor-in-Chief.
Bad Daughter (Four Way Books, 2011)
The Cure (Four Way Books, 2003)
The Tension Zone (Four Way Books, 1996)
Don"t Go Back to Sleep (Galileo Press, 1989)
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Last Call: Poems of Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance. Study in Perfect (University of Georgia Press, 2014).
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Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner were the 2002 writers-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. Gorham has also received grants and fellowships from The Kentucky State Arts Council, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Delaware State Arts Council, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony,the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Gorham was awarded a 2013 National Education Association fellowship in creative writing. Her collection A Study in Perfect won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2013, awarded by Bernard Cooper.
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Press Publishers Award Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner were the 2002 writers-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. Gorham has also received grants and fellowships from The Kentucky State Arts Council, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Delaware State Arts Council, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony,the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Gorham was awarded a 2013 NEA fellowship in creative writing. Her collection A Study in Perfect won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2013, awarded by Bernard Cooper.Press Publishers Award Gorham and Jeffrey Skinner were the 2002 writers-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. Gorham has also received grants and fellowships from The Kentucky State Arts Council, The Kentucky Foundation for Women, The Delaware State Arts Council, The Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony,the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Gorham was awarded a 2013 NEA fellowship in creative writing. Her collection A Study in Perfect won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2013, awarded by Bernard Cooper.