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Sam sax is the author of the poetry collections PIG (Scribner, 2023); bury it (Wesleyan University Press, 2018), winner of the James Laughlin Award; madness (Penguin, 2017), winner of the National Poetry Series and selected by Terrance Hayes; and four chapbooks. They earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, and Stanford University.

Sax is a two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion. They have won a Gulf Coast Prize, an Iowa Review Award, and an American Literary Award. Their poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta, and other journals. In 2018, sax was awarded a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. They currently work as a lecturer in the ITALIC Program at Stanford University.