About

Sarah V. Schweig's second book, The Ocean in the Next Room, won the Jake Adam York Prize and will be published by Milkweed Editions in 2025. Her first book, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press (Kuhl House Poets series). She is also the author of the chapbook S (Dancing Girl Press). She has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research, where she wrote her dissertation on the value of poetry. She is also a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was the recipient of the David Craig Austen Memorial Award, and previously a 2012 Emerging Poet Resident at Poets House, a 2010 Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Workshop, and a 2010 Ruth Lilly Fellowship finalist. Her poetry has appeared in Black Warrior Review, BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, Everyday Genius, Granta, HTML Giant, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Maggy, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry Daily, Poetry Society of America, Tin House, Verse Daily, The Volta, Slice, West Branch, Western Humanities Review, and the Yale Review, among others. Her critical essays and reviews have appeared at Fanzine, Gulf Coast, The Literary Review, Public Seminar, Publishers Weekly, and the Tourniquet Review. She lives in Maine with her husband and son. 

Email: sarahvschweig@gmail.com