Sarah Ghazal Ali

Sarah Ghazal Ali (she/her) is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editor’s Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award.

Winner of the 2022 Sewanee Review Poetry Contest, Ali’s poems have been published in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Narrative Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, and other outlets.

A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow, Ali is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. She has received fellowships and residencies from Tin House, the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, the Hambidge Center, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, Community of Writers, and others. Ali earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was a Juniper and MFA Fellow, and currently lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.