Sarah Lindsay (born 1958) is an American

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from

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. In addition to writing the two

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s ''Bodies of Water'' and ''Insomniac's Lullabye'', Lindsay has authored two books in the

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Poetry Series: ''Primate Behavior'' (a

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finalist) and ''Mount Clutter''. Her work has been featured in magazines such as ''

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''. Lindsay has been awarded with the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize. Her third book of poetry, ''Twigs and Knucklebones'' (

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, 2008), was selected as a "Favorite Book of 2008" by

Christian Wiman Christian Wiman (born August 31, 1966) is an American poet, translator and editor. Biography Raised in the small West Texas town of Snyder, he graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at Northwestern University, Stanford Uni ...

, editor of ''

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'' magazine. Her most recent book of poems is ''Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower'' (

, 2013), which was a 2013 Lannan Literary Selection. Lindsay graduated from St. Olaf College with a B.A. in English and

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, and holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the

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. She currently lives in

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, and works as a copy editor at Pace Communications.

Works

* ''Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower'' (

, 2013) * ''Twigs and Knucklebones'' (

, 2008) * ''Mount Clutter'' (Grove Press, 2002) * ''Primate Behavior'' (Grove Press, 1997) * ''Insomniac's Lullabye'' * ''Bodies of Water''

References

Living people 1958 births American women poets St. Olaf College alumni University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women {{US-poet-1950s-stub