Sarah M. Wells

Sarah M. Wells is the author of Acquiesce (Finishing Line Press, March 2009), winner of the 2008 Starting Gate Award.  Her full-length manuscript Pruning Burning Bushes was a finalist for the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize from Truman State University Press. Essays by Wells have appeared or are forthcoming in Ascent and River Teeth.  Her poetry has appeared in Alimentum, Ascent, Christianity & Literature, The Fourth River, JAMA, Literary Mama, The New Formalist, Nimrod, Poetry East, and elsewhere.  She has received scholarships to attend the Key West Literary Seminar and West Chester Poetry Conference. Wells serves as the Managing Editor for the Ashland Poetry Press and River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative.  She lives in Ashland with her husband, Brandon, and their three young children, Lydia, Elvis, and Henry.