Sarah Jones is a Seattle-based poet and marketing director in the tech industry. She is the author of the chapbook Lies I Tell Myself (dancing girl press & studio, 2018). Sarah has been nominated for multiple Pushcart Prizes, and she has been featured in Poets & Writers Magazine and on NPR.  Her poetry has appeared in New Ohio ReviewThe Normal SchoolAmerican Literary Review, Entropy magazine, Maudlin HouseRaven Chronicles, City Arts Magazine, Yes, Poetry, and many other places. Sarah is an editorial assistant of Poetry Northwest magazine, and she holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles.

Sarah grew up in the Sierra Nevada of California. In those mountains, she learned how to fish with nightcrawlers and PowerBait. She kept a baseball mitt under her mattress and a rubber band gun under her pillow.  In high school, Sarah played point guard on the basketball team and didn’t take her English classes seriously enough. She learned a lot about drugs and alcohol and domestic violence. She found solace beneath Sugar pines, watching water striders glide along the surface of Huntington Lake. A good chunk of her soul still resides in the High Sierra.

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