sam sax

sam is a queer, Jewish, writer and educator. He is 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. His poems have been published in the New York Times, Poetry Magazine, and Buzzfeed. sam has received fellowships from The Poetry Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Lambda Literary and the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. At the Mesa Refuge, he  worked on a book of poems about pigs (police, queerness, farm animals, global food systems and kashrut law) and a novel about protest, climate change, religion, and desire.