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Sarah Ghazal Ali

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Sarah Ghazal Ali is a Pakistani American writer. She is the author of the poetry collection Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a California Book Award, and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. A Stadler and Kundiman Fellow, Sarah is the poetry editor for West Branch and an Assistant Professor of English at Macalester College. She lives and teaches in Saint Paul, Minnesota.


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Making a Living by Rosalie Moffett
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completely devoured this—ridiculously good. what a beautiful, moving debut that asks what we do with what we've been given, and how we might break from those paths to forge our own. highly recommend! ...more
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We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik
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a tender, piercing collection of poetry that completely revitalized me, and changed my understanding of what kinds of questions poems can ask—this collection was one I had to put down repeatedly to process what I had read before continuing. and here ...more
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The Original Daughter by Jemimah Wei
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What an intriguing novel—I was invested start to finish. I found this to be an original story, one that went in a different direction that I expected (I love to be surprised by novels!). I found Gen to be a flawed and perplexing protagonist, and enjo ...more
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Virginia Woolf
“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”
Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Chaim Potok
“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
Chaim Potok, The Chosen

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Edgar Allan Poe
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

Oscar Wilde
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything

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