Sarah Stern is the author of WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY IN THE MIDST OF MISFORTUNE, BUT TODAY IS DIFFERENT, and ANOTHER WORD FOR LOVE. She is a recipient of a 2019 and 2018 Pushcart Prize nomination and a five-time winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts' BRIO Award for Poetry. She was short-listed for Ireland's Fish Poetry Prize and awarded Honorable Mentions from the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards and Lilith Magazine's Charlotte Newberger Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and online, most recently in: The American Dream Anthology; The Best of Ducts.org; Dash; Coffee Poems: Reflections on Life with Coffee; Epiphany; Freefall; Rise Up Review; Swwim; This Full Green Hour; What Rough Beast; and Verse Daily. She grew up in New York City, the youngest of seven children and the only girl. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.