Sarah Maclay is the author of three collections of poetry—Music for the Black Room (2011), The White Bride (2008), and Whore (2004), winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her poems and criticism appear in APR, Ploughshares, FIELD, The Writer’s Chronicle, VerseDaily, The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present (2008), The Laurel Review, Pool, Slope, Lyric, The Journal, Poemeleon and numerous other spots including Poetry International, where she serves as Book Review Editor. Her Fugue States Coming Down the Hall is anthologized in Scenarios: Scripts to Perform. In 2008, she became the founding artistic director of The 3rd Area: Poetry at Pharmaka, a reading series more recently at Frank Pictures Gallery in Santa Monica. A 2009 Grisham Visiting Writer and recipient of a Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXI (2007), she teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola Marymount University, conducting periodic workshops at The Ruskin Art Club and Beyond Baroque.

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