Sarah Heady

Sarah Heady is a poet and essayist interested in place, history, and the built environment. She is the author of Corduroy Road (dancing girl press, 2021); Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills, 2013), winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award; and Tatted Insertion (2014), a limited edition letterpress chapbook with artist Leah Virsik. Sarah is also the librettist of Halcyon, a new opera about the death and life of a women's college, currently in development with composer Joshua Groffman and...See more

Sarah Heady is a poet and essayist interested in place, history, and the built environment. She is the author of Corduroy Road (dancing girl press, 2021); Niagara Transnational (Fourteen Hills, 2013), winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award; and Tatted Insertion (2014), a limited edition letterpress chapbook with artist Leah Virsik. Sarah is also the librettist of Halcyon, a new opera about the death and life of a women's college, currently in development with composer Joshua Groffman and producer Vital Opera. She is the recipient of residencies and fellowships from the Corporation of Yaddo, Asylum Arts, the Home School, Art Farm, and Summer Literary Seminars. Raised in the Hudson River Valley region of New York State, she now lives in San Francisco, where she co-edits Drop Leaf Press, a small women-run poetry collective. More at sarahheady.com. See less