Natasha Sajé (born June 6, 1955, in
Munich
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,
Germany
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) is an American
poet
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. Her memoir ''Terroir'' was a finalist for the
Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Literature.
Life
She grew up in
New York City
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, and
New Jersey
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. She graduated from the
University of Virginia
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,
Johns Hopkins
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, and the
University of Maryland, College Park
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.
She taught at
Westminster College, where she is now Emeritus, and
Vermont College
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.
Her work appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''New Republic'', ''Parnassus'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Shenandoah'', and ''The Writers Chronicle''.
Awards
* 2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV
* 2015 15 Bytes Award, ''Vivarium''
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2008
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*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award
* 2004 Utah Poetry Book of the Year, ''Bend''
* 1993
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
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This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ...
, ''Red Under the Skin''
* Towson State Prize in Literature
Books
Poetry
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* ''The Art of the Novel''. 2004.
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Criticism
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Creative Nonfiction
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References
External links
"Author's website""Trinity University Press Page for ''Terroir, Love out of Place''""Poet Natasha Sajé reads for the Spring 2020 issue of RHINO literary magazine""Interview with Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Greta Aart): Natasha Sajé", ''Emprize Review''
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Emigrants from West Germany to the United States
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners
University of Virginia alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty
Living people
American women poets
Writers from Munich
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
American women academics
1955 births