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About Sarah

Kentucky poet, folklorist, naturalist, and educator Sarah McCartt-Jackson is the author of the award-winning poetry collection Stonelight, which won the Phillip H. McMath Award in Poetry, the Weatherford Award in Poetry, and the Airlie Prize. Her chapbooks include Calf Canyon, Vein of Stone, and Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River, which won the Mary Ballard Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Indiana Review, Bellingham Review, Journal of American Folklore, NANO Fiction, The Maine Review, among others, and she has exhibited her poetry in collaboration with visual and performance artists at several galleries. She has received support from the Kentucky Arts Council, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, and Kentucky Foundation for Women. In addition to teaching poetry, Sarah has served as folklorist and oral historian for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, assistant curator for Mammoth Cave National Park, and artist-in-residence for the Great Smoky Mountains, Catoctin Mountain, and Acadia National Parks.