Sara Henning is a poet and editor. She is the author of two volumes of poetry, most recently View from True North, which won the 2017 Crab Orchard Poetry Open Prize, selected by Adrian Matejka, and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2018. Her other collections include A Sweeter Water (Lavender Ink 2013), as well as two chapbooks, Garden Effigies (dancing girl press 2015) and To Speak of Dahlias (Finishing Line Press 2012). In 2015, she won the Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, judged by Alberto Ríos. She has published poems in several journals and anthologies, most notably Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Passages North, RHINO, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. She also has a record of publication in fiction and nonfiction, with flash fiction and lyrical essays published in journals such as Connotation Press, where she appeared as featured author for the September 2016 issue, and 4 PM Count, a journal associated with the Arts Endowment’s interagency initiative with Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons in Yankton, South Dakota. She has received fellowships and grants from the Vermont Studio Center and the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and she has presented on contemporary women’s writing at national and regional conferences, including AWP and MMLA.
Sara is a visiting assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she has taught or will teach a variety of courses and workshops in introductory creative writing, intermediate nonfiction, rhetoric and composition, and literature. Her creative and scholarly work focuses on twentieth-century American literature and contemporary women’s literature, and her teaching and research interests include creative writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid genres), contemporary poetics, and the cultural politics of gender and class.
Sara began her editorial career at the University of South Dakota, where she held titles such as Associate Poetry Editor (2011-2012), Circulations Manager (2012-2013), and Managing Editor (2013-2014) of the South Dakota Review. She has gone on to serve as guest poetry editor at Regarding Arts & Letters, Stephen F. Austin State University’s national literary magazine, as well as Associate Editor of Sundress Publications, where she aids in the publication of innovative poetry collections.
Sara is a visiting assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at Stephen F. Austin State University, where she has taught or will teach a variety of courses and workshops in introductory creative writing, intermediate nonfiction, rhetoric and composition, and literature. Her creative and scholarly work focuses on twentieth-century American literature and contemporary women’s literature, and her teaching and research interests include creative writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and hybrid genres), contemporary poetics, and the cultural politics of gender and class.
Sara began her editorial career at the University of South Dakota, where she held titles such as Associate Poetry Editor (2011-2012), Circulations Manager (2012-2013), and Managing Editor (2013-2014) of the South Dakota Review. She has gone on to serve as guest poetry editor at Regarding Arts & Letters, Stephen F. Austin State University’s national literary magazine, as well as Associate Editor of Sundress Publications, where she aids in the publication of innovative poetry collections.