Sarah Kain Gutowski
ABOUT
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Sarah Kain Gutowski (she/her) is the author of The Familiar, a finalist for the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award, and Fabulous Beast: Poems, which was a runner-up for the 2018 X.J. Kennedy Prize, a 2019 Foreword INDIES Finalist, and winner of the 14th annual National Indies Excellence Award for Poetry. With interdisciplinary artist Meredith Starr, she is co-creator of Every Second Feels Like Theft, a conversation in cyanotypes and poems, and It's All Too Much, a limited edition audio project.
Her poetry has appeared in various print and online journals, including The Threepenny Review, So To Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, Verse Daily, and The Southern Review.
Her criticism has been published by Colorado Review, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, and the New York Journal of Books.
She holds an MFA in poetry from New York University and a BA in English and Mass Communications from James Madison University. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Sicily, Western Michigan University’s Prague Summer Program, and the Southampton Writers Conference Script Development Lab. In 2022, she was awarded an artist's residency at Stiwdio Maelor in Corris, Wales.
She's taught poetry and mixed genre writing workshops at New York University and for Stony Brook University's MFA in Creative Writing and Literature Program.
A full-time, tenured Professor of English at Suffolk County Community College, Gutowski is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the Academy of American Poets, the Popular Culture Association, and Pen Parentis.
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"The talent of Gutowski is demonstrated in her ability to transform storytelling from an exterior to an interior phenomena."
— Amelia Martens, author of
The Spoons in the Grass
are There To Dig a Moat
