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Sarah Parker Bio

Sarah Parker is the author of the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize poem, "you cannot eat a koi fish." As an M.F.A. Candidate in Fiction at The Ohio State University, Parker strives to use her background in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies to produce authentic narratives that urge audiences to understand, feel, and witness oppression with a discernable tangibility. She is currently at work on a dystopian novel titled Red Glare.

Red Glare

"When Pat told me the story of the house, it felt shattered. The story had ruptured inside of her, a thing punctured and bled. Broken in all the ways a thing can be. I had wondered if there were parts of it that she couldn’t remember. Maybe some things she had blocked out, or been erased, or things she had been spared. Perhaps there is no whole, undissected story. A house is a house is a house, until it isn’t."

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