Sara Shea received her BA from Kenyon College, where she served as Student Associate Editor for The Kenyon Review. She pursued graduate studies through the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville and at WCU, where she studied with Ron Rash. Her stories and poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review, Quarterly West, The Static in Our Stars Anthology, Amsterdam Quarterly, Gaslamp Pulp, New Plains Review, The Goodlife Review, The Awakenings Review, Atlanta Review, Petigru Review and Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature. She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships. Her first chapbook In A Photograph Already Burning was published in 2025 by Tiny Cat Press.
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Stillness and shimmer. Music and the loose notes that make it. Bounty and restraint. Form and the absence of form. These are some of things that animate these poems and the story they tell of a mother and daughter and a chorus of providers in the manyness of the world. These poems sing of the lives they forge both in that abundance and despite it, beautiful and true.
–Tyler Meier, Executive Director, University of Arizona Poetry Center Affiliated Faculty, Department of English
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“Shea captures the poignant ache and soaring exultation embodied by parents whose kids are neurodivergent. Those on similar journeys will find her words express their own deepest feelings. In the natural world, Shea finds reflections of her many experiences birthing and raising a rare child. Beautifully written, this is a balm for the soul.”
–Sarah Spear, Spokesperson for Wiedemann-Steiner Syndrome Foundation
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