Miriam Sagan (born April 27, 1954, in Manhattan, New York) [1] is a U.S. poet, as well as an essayist, memoirist and teacher. [2] [3] She is the author of over a dozen books, and lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [4] She is a founding member of the collaborative press Tres Chicas Books. [5]
A graduate of Harvard with an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University, Sagan was one of the editors of the Boston area-based Aspect Magazine with Ed Hogan. [6] In 1980 Hogan shut Aspect down and he, Sagan and others founded Zephyr Press. [7]
She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, Yaddo, [8] MacDowell, [9] Gulkistan in Iceland, [10] Kura Studio in Japan, [11] and other interesting and remote places. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. [12]
Her intergenerational collaborative team, Maternal Mitochondria (with Isabel Winson-Sagan), [13] has produced text installations in venues ranging from abandoned buildings to galleries to RV parks. [14] Miriam's work has been incised on stoneware as part of two haiku pathways, [15] set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble, [16] and left in Little Free Libraries across the country. [17]
Miriam Sagan (born April 27, 1954, in Manhattan, New York) [1] is a U.S. poet, as well as an essayist, memoirist and teacher. [2] [3] She is the author of over a dozen books, and lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. [4] She is a founding member of the collaborative press Tres Chicas Books. [5]
A graduate of Harvard with an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University, Sagan was one of the editors of the Boston area-based Aspect Magazine with Ed Hogan. [6] In 1980 Hogan shut Aspect down and he, Sagan and others founded Zephyr Press. [7]
She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, Yaddo, [8] MacDowell, [9] Gulkistan in Iceland, [10] Kura Studio in Japan, [11] and other interesting and remote places. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College. [12]
Her intergenerational collaborative team, Maternal Mitochondria (with Isabel Winson-Sagan), [13] has produced text installations in venues ranging from abandoned buildings to galleries to RV parks. [14] Miriam's work has been incised on stoneware as part of two haiku pathways, [15] set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble, [16] and left in Little Free Libraries across the country. [17]