Sabrina Orah Mark Sabrina Orah Mark was raised in Brooklyn, and received a B.A. from Barnard College, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers&; Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Letters and Commentary, American Poet, The Canary, Conduit, Denver Quarterly, Forklift, Ohio, Gulf Coast, The Indiana Review, jubilat, Volt and other journals. Her poems also appear in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Press). She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Glenn Schaeffer Foundation. Her first book of poems, The Babies, won the 2004 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize (judged by Jane Miller), and was recently published by Saturnalia Books. Her essay, “Mark Levine: The Poetics of Evidence,” will be included in American Poets of the 21st Century: The New Poetics, an anthology forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. She lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is completing her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia and working on her second book, Tsim Tsum.

September 12th, 2006