Poet / Performer / Educator
Sara Mae is a genderqueer writer raised on the Chesapeake Bay. Their work examines the surreal, the uncanny, body horror, and intimacy. They are a 2023 Big Ears Music Festival Artist Scholar, a 2022 Tin House Summer Workshops alum, a 2022 Open Mouth Attendee, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholar. Their work appears in or is forthcoming from POETRY, the Georgia Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. They are a 2017 Individual World Poetry Slam, 2018 National Poetry Slam, and 2018 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Competitor. Their first chapbook, Priestess of Tankinis, is out via Game Over Books. Their second chapbook, Phantasmagossip, won the Vinyl45 chapbook competition and was released from YesYes Books in spring 2025. They received their MFA from UT Knoxville. They write bedroom pop as The Noisy, and currently live in Philly.
Photo by Cassandra Rodriguez.
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Rookie Magazine, 2018
Interview with Zenadia Peterson by Ugochi Egonu about my work organizing with the Feminine Empowerment Movement Slam
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Half Mystic, 2023
Interview about my band, The Noisy
By Kate Wilson
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post-trash, 2024
Review and premiere for Ballerino, first single from The Secret Ingredient is More Meat
