Ellin Sarot

ELLIN SAROT is a poet and editor. Her poems have appeared in The Main Street Rag, The Paterson Literary Review, The Deronda Review, and Women’s Studies: An Inter-Disciplinary Journal, among others, and several anthologies, including Women Writers Resist: Poets Resist Gender Violence (2013), and Veils, Halos & Shackles; International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women (2016). In 2014, she was awarded the first Gish Jen Fellowship for Emerging Writers by the Writers’ Room of Boston, where she currently serves on the board. Recent prizes include second prize in String Poet’s 2014 contest, and the New England Poetry Club’s Firman Houghton Award for 2015. Sarot earned her PhD at Columbia University.