Sara Louise "Sally" Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of ''Annus Mirabilis'' (Barrow Street Press, 2005). Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''

American Poetry Review ''The American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Elizab ...

,'' '' Harvard Review'', '' Pleiades'', '' Ploughshares'', ''Rivendell'', ''

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'', '' Threepenny Review'', ''Salmagundi'', ''

The Southwest Review The ''Southwest Review'' is a literary journal published quarterly, based on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas, Texas. It is the third oldest literary quarterly in the United States. The current editor-in-chief is Greg Brownderv ...

'', ''The Threepenny Review'', ''

Yale Review ''The Yale Review'' is the oldest literary journal in the United States. It is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. It was founded in 1819 as ''The Christian Spectator'' to support Evangelicalism. Over time it began to publish more on ...

,'' and the '' Review of Contemporary Fiction''.

Life

She earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Beloit College, and worked at the Washington University in St. Louis International Writers Center. She is associate director of Four Way Books. She teaches at

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...

Honors and awards

* 2011 Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship * 2007 Margaret Bridgman Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections * ''Hold Sway'', Barrow Street Press. Forthcoming April 2019. * * ''Wreck Me'', Barrow Street Press, 2013. Anthology Publications *

References

External links

Author Website

Poems: "Dear Matthew" and others, ''Narrative'', Spring 2011

* ttp://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4110 Poems: "Gymnasium", ''Ploughshares'', Winter 1996–97
Poems: "Questiones, ''Ploughshares'', Spring 2004

Poem: "Visiting the Real Ranch", ''slate'', July 15, 2008

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