People / Sabrina Orah Mark
Sabrina Orah Mark received a B.A. from Barnard College, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first book, The Babies, won the 2004 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize (judged by Jane Miller), and was published by Saturnalia Books. Woodland Editions published her chapbook, Walter B.’s Extraordinary Cousin Arrives for a Visit & Other Tales. Her awards include a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Glenn Schaeffer Foundation, and an NEA. Her poems have been anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Press) and Best American Poetry 2007. Her essay, “Recording Devices: Mark Levine’s Poetics of Evidence,” recently appears in American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics (Wesleyan University Press).