Sara Puotinen

Sara Lynne Puotinen lives in south Minneapolis, near the Mississippi River Gorge, where she reads and writes and tries to be upright and outside as much as possible. She earned a B.A. in religion, an M.A. in ethics, and a Ph.D in women’s studies, which all inform her experiments in paying attention and her playful troubling of what it means to write while moving, to move while writing, and to do both while losing her central vision from a degenerative eye disease (cone dystrophy). Her writing has appeared in Poemeleon,  Hearth & Coffin, Longleaf Review, and is forthcoming in The Account. She documents her runs by the gorge and her swims in Lake Nokomis at run.room34.com. For more on the experiments she has developed while moving, see sarapuotinen.com/experiments.