About

Sara Sturek was raised in Long Island, New York. She received a B.A degree in both Creative Writing and Communication from the University of Southern California. In 2024, she received an MFA in Creative Writing at NYU as a Goldwater Writing Workshop Fellow. She is the recipient of the 2022 Gene and Etta Silverman Award and the 2021 Mark Greenberg Fellowship in Poetry. She now resides in New York City, where she is working on a memoir and her first poetry collection.