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Biography

Sarah Wolfson is the author of A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press, 2019), which was awarded the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Her poems have appeared in journals throughout the U.S. and Canada including The Walrus, The Fiddlehead, AGNI, TriQuarterly, Geist, Arc Poetry, and The Yale Review. Her work has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, nominated for two Pushcart Prizes, and twice named a Notable Poem in Best Canadian Poetry. Her eco-poetic work has received support from The Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and has been anthologized in Rewilding: Poems for the Environment (Flexible Press, 2020) and The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal (Storey Press, 2023). She has received teaching excellence awards from McGill University, where she works as a lecturer, and from the University of Michigan, where she received an MFA in creative writing. Born and raised in the Champlain Valley region of Vermont, known as Ndakinna by the Western Abenaki, she is a longtime resident of Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.

© 2025 by Sarah Wolfson

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