Sara Eddy’s second full-length collection, How to Wash a Rabbit is forthcoming from Cornerstone press. Her third chapbook, Jewelweed: Poems about Plants, is also forthcoming, that one from Finishing Line press. She is author of Ordinary Fissures (Kelsay Books, 2024),Tell the Bees: Poem About Bees & Beekeeping (A3 Press, 2019), and Full Mouth: Poems about Food (Finishing Line Press, 2020).  Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Threepenny Review, Baltimore Review, SWWIM, Raleigh Review, and Spank the Carp, among others. 

Sara grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where she attended the public schools. She went on to get a BA in English from Connecticut College and an MA/PhD in American Literature from Tufts University. At Connecticut, she studied poetry writing with Charles Hartman; at Tufts she worked with Deborah Digges.

After stints in Washington D.C., Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Somerville, Cambridge, Medford, Watertown, and Arlington, Massachusetts, Sara finally returned to Amherst in 2005. She is now Assistant Director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, and lives in a house built by Emily Dickinson’s cousin with a white dog named Sully and a black cat named Luna.