Sara Jane Stoner

Sara Jane Stoner is a teacher and writer from Colorado living in Brooklyn who has led workshops at Wendy’s Subway, Poet’s House, and the Poetry Project, and will online this summer from her own home. She has taught at Cooper Union, several CUNYs, Bard’s Microcollege at the Holyoke Care Center, and currently teaches at Pratt Institute’s Architecture Writing Program and the University of Michigan’s New England Literature Program. She holds an MFA in fiction from Indiana University, and someday might finish her PhD in English at CUNY Graduate Center, focused on critical pedagogies and intersectional queer theory, particularly in the context of contemporary experimental writing. Her chapbook, Grief Hour, was published by Black Warrior Review in 2017, and her first book, Experience in the Medium of Destruction (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2015) was nominated for a Lambda Award. In June-July of 2020, she’ll be the Blogger-in-Residence for Futurepoem at www.future-feed.net.