Sara Mae

Sara Mae is a genderqueer writer raised on the Chesapeake Bay. They are interested in the surreal, the uncanny, body horror, and intimacy. They are a 2026 and 2022 McCormack Writing Center workshops alum (FKA Tin House), a 2023 Big Ears Music Festival Artist Scholar, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholar. Their work appears in POETRY, the Georgia Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. They've taught writing through Drexel, UT Knoxville, Hampshire College, Blue Stoop, Miami Book Fair, Morris Arboretum & Gardens of the University of Pennsylvania, and H&H Bookstore. Their second chapbook, Phantasmagossip, won the Vinyl45 chapbook competition and was released from YesYes Books in spring 2025. They received their MFA from UT Knoxville. They write bedroom pop as The Noisy, and currently live in Philly.