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Longlisted for the National Book Award

Sax has produced a work that is meditative, deeply humane, and profoundly original. - Kirkus Starred Review

Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They're the author of Yr Dead (McSweeneys 2024) and PIG named one of the best books of 2023 by New York Magazine and Electric Lit. They're also the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and ‘Bury It’ winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They're the two time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine, Granta and elsewhere. Sam's received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, Lambda Lit, MacDowell, and is currently serving as an ITALIC Lecturer at Stanford University.

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