Sarah Vap

 Sarah Vap is the author of six collections of poetry, including Viability, selected for the 2016 National Poetry Series; American Spikenard, was the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize in 2007, and Dummy Fire, winner of the 2006 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by Forest Gander.  A recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship, Vap makes her home in Phoenix.  Her seventh collection, Winter, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2019.