Sarah Maclay is the author of The White Bride (University of Tampa Press, 2008) and Whore (Tampa Review Prize for Poetry), as well as three limited edition chapbooks: Shadow of Light (Inevitable Press), Ice from the Belly (Far Star Fire) and Weeding the Duchess (Black Stone Press). Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared in APR, FIELD, Ploughshares, The Writers' Chronicle, Ninth Letter, Pool, Swink, The Laurel Review, The Journal, lyric, Hotel Amerika, ZYZZYVA, Solo, The Los Angeles Review, Washington Square, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain and numerous other spots including Poetry International, where she serves as book review editor.

Her work has recently been selected for inclusion in The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to the Present (Scribner, 2008). She received a Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize XXXI, a 2005 Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship, and was the first runner up in the 2007 Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Contest. She has also been a winner of the dA Center for the Arts Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Blue Lynx Prize and a semi-finalist for the Kenyon Review Poetry Prize, the Cleveland State University Poetry Prize and the Tupelo Press First Book Prize. Originally from Montana, she earned degrees from Oberlin College and the MFA program at Vermont College, has taught at USC and FIDM, and is currently a visiting assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University. She lives in Venice, California where she also conducts workshops privately and, periodically, at Beyond Baroque.