Sarah Alcaide-Escue is a writer, editor, and interdisciplinary artist from Florida. Her poetry chapbook Bruised Gospel was published by The Lune in 2020.
Sarah is a digital archive writer for the Poetry Foundation and a copywriter for an international marketing agency. She received her MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School and her BA in English and creative writing from the University of South Florida.
Sarah has been awarded fellowships, honors, and scholarships from the Jack Kerouac School, Bucknell’s Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, and Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise, among others. She was also a writing resident at Greywood Arts in Killeagh, Ireland. Her work has been published widely, in national and international journals and spaces.
Over the years, Sarah has served as an editor at publications such as The Adirondack Review, Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art, Plath Profiles, BEATS literary magazine, and Cigar City Poetry Journal.
Sarah’s creative and scholarly interests include ecopoetics, disability poetics, fairy tale and folklore studies, ancient languages, and forgotten places.