Sarah Stern is the author of four poetry books: Dear Letters In The Red Box (Kelsay Books, 2026), We Have Been Lucky In The Midst of Misfortune (Kelsay Books, Aldrich Press, 2018), But Today Is Different (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014), and Another Word For Love (Finishing Line Press, 2011). 

She will be teaching a six-week Zoom workshop, Poetry and Its Forms: Learn the Rules then Break Them with WritingWorkshops.com beginning Tuesday, February 17, 2026. Registration is now open. Read a Meet the Teaching Artist Interview with Sarah Stern.

Her books are also available on Amazon and other sites. See Calyx and Jewish Week  reviews, a Riverdale Press profile, and a DeborahKalbBooks Q&A. Hear some of her poems: youtube.com/@sarahstern3.

She is an educator at Poets House and other venues and the Founder of SDGS Solutions, which helps organizations and businesses with a range of communications efforts. Listen to a related Poets House Hard Hat Reading.

Stern is a six-time winner, the latest in 2024, of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO Award for Poetry. She was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She was short-listed for Ireland’s Fish Poetry Prize; a finalist for the Dora and Alexander Raynes Poetry Prize; and received Honorable Mentions from the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Awards and Lilith’s Poetry Prize.

Her poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies and online, most recently in Slipstream, Visions International, Clockhouse, Epiphany, The Man Who Ate His Book: The Best of ducts.org, Dash, East on Central, FreeFall, The American Dream Anthology, The New Verse News, Rise Up Review, The RavensPerch, Swwim Every Day, What Rough Beast, The Woven Tale Press, and Verse Daily.  Visit her Artistic Resume. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.