Natasha Sajé, Author of Bend
Biography
Natasha Sajé was born in Germany and grew up in New York City and northern New Jersey. Her first book of poems was
Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994). Her poems, essays, and reviews appear in
The Gettysburg Review,
The Kenyon Review,
New Republic,
Parnassus,
Shenandoah, and
The Writers Chronicle, among others. Sajé teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, and in the Vermont College MFA in Writing program.
Awards
2008 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America
2004 Utah Poetry Book of the Year,
Bend
Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for
Red Under the Skin, her first book of poems.
Towson State Prize in Literature for
Red Under the Skin.
Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America.
2002 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize.
Links
http://people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/nsaje.
Listen to Natasha Sajé read some of her poetry.
Reviews of Natasha Sajé's Bend