Sarah Hannah received a B.A. from Wesleyan University, an M.F.A. and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Currently, she teaches poetry at Emerson College in Boston. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from, The Southern Review, Parnassus, Agni, Rattapallax, Western Humanities Review, New Millennium Writing, The National Poetry Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Harvard Review, and many other journals. She was also an editor at Barrow Street Press, and Poet Laureate of The Friends of Hemlock Gorge, an organization of nature conservators in Newton, MA. She was awarded a Governor's Fellowship for residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts for summer 2001, 2002 and 2006. The original manuscript which became Longing Distance was a semi-finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 2002. Poems from Inflorescence have been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes. She grew up in Newton, and until her death in May 2007, taught poetry writing and literature at Emerson College.

Nominated for the 2004 30th Edition Pushcart Prize Anthology, Best of the Small Presses
Nominated for the 2004 Pushcart Prize
Governor's Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Davidoff Fellowship, Wesleyan Writers' Conference
Semi-finalist, Yale Younger Poets Prize, 2002

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Verse Daily (http://www.versedaily.org/ftfhwtinf.shtml).

Pivot (http://www.n2hos.com/acm/pivot56.html).

Western Humanities Review (http://www.hum.utah.edu/whr/notes0402.html).

Barrow Street (http://www.barrowstreet.org/journalMain.html).

Crab Orchard Review (http://www.siu.edu/~crborchd/cont52.html).