{"id":2137,"date":"2024-06-28T12:26:57","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T12:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-english\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=2137"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T16:04:55","slug":"sarah-ghazal-ali","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/facultystaff\/sarah-ghazal-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Ghazal Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Ghazal Ali is the author of&nbsp;<em>Theophanies<\/em> (Alice James Books, 2024), selected as the Editors&#8217; Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award.&nbsp;Winner of&nbsp;The Sewanee Review&nbsp;Poetry Prize, her poems&nbsp;and essays&nbsp;have been published in&nbsp;The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review,&nbsp;Poetry,&nbsp;Narrative Magazine,&nbsp;the Academy of American Poets&#8217; Poem-a-Day series, and elsewhere.&nbsp;She has received fellowships and residencies from Tin House, the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts,&nbsp;Kundiman,&nbsp;the Hambidge Center, and others.&nbsp;She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was a Juniper and MFA Fellow, and&nbsp;is the poetry editor for&nbsp;<em>West Branch<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Areas of Study<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Form in poetry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Asian\/Asian-American poetics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Archival poetry<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The lyric essay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fall 2025 Courses<\/strong><br>ENGL 150-01 Introduction to\u00a0 Creative Writing<br>ENGL 280-01 Crafts of Writing: Poetry: The Engine of Obsession<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Spring 2026 Courses<\/strong><br>ENGL 150-01\/02: Introduction to Creative Writing<br>ENGL 280-01: Crafts of Poetry: The Political Poem<\/p>","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2149,"template":"","class_list":["post-2137","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/2137\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/english-and-creative-writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}