Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series: Sarah Minor

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101 Swallow Hall

Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist and the author of Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, winner of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose (2021), Bright Archive, a collection of visual essays (Rescue Press, 2020), and the chapbook The Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated, selected by Joseph Harrington (Essay Press, 2016).  Her prose and visual poems appear in places like Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, The Columbia Review, and BRINK Magazine and have been collected in anthologies like Best American Experimental Writing, A Harp in the Stars, and Welcome to the Neighborhood.

Minor is the recipient of a Research Fellowship to Iceland from the American Scandinavian Foundation, a 2019 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and her essay "Something Clear" was awarded the 2018 Barthelme Prize in Short Prose. She has held fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and was the 2018 Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Writer's Workshop. 

Minor serves as curator of the visual essay series at Essay Daily and as the Video Essay and Cinepoetry Section Editor at TriQuarterly Review. She holds a PhD from Ohio University, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa.