Sassy Ross
Sassy Ross is a poet. Born in Saint Lucia, she lives in New York City. Early life Ross was born in Castries, Saint Lucia. She lived her early years in the Caribbean and grew up speaking a mixture of English and French patois. When she was ten years old she moved to the United States, arriving in Virginia. She attended Pennsylvania State University and began writing poetry. She moved to New York and received her Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from New York University (NYU). Career While studying poetry at NYU, Ross was nominated for a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. She later taught Creative Writing at NYU, and also taught high school English at the Student Center program in New Orleans, where she was a member of the Nommo Literary Workshop. She also served as the managing editor of ''Calabash'', a NYU publication. Her work has appeared in ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Caribbean Beat'', the ''Caribbean Review of Books'', '' Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters'', ' ...
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