Sarah Sarai was born in Port Washington, grew up in California, and now lives in New York. She is a former English teacher and college professor and is now an editor and researcher. She has an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. Books/chapbooks include The Future Is Happy (BlazeVOX), I Feel Good, Emily Dickinson’s Coconut Face, and The Risen Barbie. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, Thrush, The Minnesota Review, Lavender Review, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Fairy Tale Review, Say It Loud: Poems About James Brown (Whirlwind Press), Introduction to Poetry (Kendall Hunt), and other journals and anthologies. She is a contributing editor at The Writing Disorder.