ABOUT
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Sarah A. Chavez is a proud mestiza writer, educator, & literary community advocate born and raised in the California Central Valley, and is the author of the poetry collections, Hands That Break & Scar (Sundress Publications), like everything else we loved, (Porkbelly Press), All Day, Talking (dancing girl press), and Halfbreed Helene Navigates the Whole (Ravenna Press’ Triple Series).
She earned her PhD in Creative Writing & Ethnic Studies, with a focus in Latinx/Chicanx culture and art from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Her creative and critical research and scholarship explores performativity surrounding the identity intersections of ethnicity, socioeconomics, gender, and grief.
Recent writing projects have received a Pushcart nomination, Best of the Net nominations, a 2019-2020 Tacoma Artists Initiative Award, as well as residencies at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, the Macondo Writers Workshop, and The Writer’s Colony at Dairy Hollow. Her new project, In the Face of Mourning was awarded a 2023 Scholarship & Research grant from the University of Washington Tacoma’s (UWT) School for Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences.
Recent writing can be found in Diode, Thimble Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Cider Press Review, & The Museum of Americana: A Literary Review, among others.
Chavez teaches Creative Writing and Latinx Studies at the University of Washington Tacoma and serves as the poetry coordinator for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net Anthology.