sam sax is the author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series Selected by Terrance Hayes and Bury It (Wesleyan University Press, 2018). He’s received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary, and MacDowell. He’s the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion, author of four chapbooks and winner of the 2016 Iowa Review Award. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, BuzzFeed, Poetry Magazine, Tin House and other journals. He’s the poetry editor at BOAAT Press. At MacDowell, he worked on his first novel, a non-linear, lyric post-Trump salvo, and wrote a poem a day. He also finished the final edits for his first book of poems Madness.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
sam sax
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
More:
www.samsax.com
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
Yr Dead (Novel)
Studios
Wood
sam sax worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…