Sarah Passino is a poet, artist, and educator. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Rona Jaffe Foundation, Poet’s House, The Center for Book Arts, and by the 92nd Street Y’s Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize. She has been published by The Brooklyn Rail, DIAGRAM, Berkeley Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Boston Review, Wendy’s Subway, and Company Gallery. Her book Versioning Sappho Versioning came out with Stereoverse in 2021 and a series of her drawings and daybook poems is forthcoming at the Opalka Gallery, curated by Nancy Shaver and the artist collective, Wolf Tones. Sarah earned an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University, an MA in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught at Vanderbilt University, Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in partnership with American Baptist College and abolitionist leaders inside, with worker’s centers and community arts organizations, at Bard’s Microcollege at the Brooklyn Public Library, and at the Yale School of Art. She is a contributing editor at Ugly Duckling Presse and arts educator at Dia Beacon.
