| Intro | American writer and academic |
| Is | Poet |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Literature |
| Gender | female |
Sara Louise “Sally” Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of Annus Mirabilis (Barrow Street Press, 2005). Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Rivendell, Slate, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. She earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Beloit College, and worked at Washington University’s International Writers Center. She is associate director of Four Way Books. She teaches at Arizona State University. In 1993, she married T. M. McNally; they have three children.
Honors and awards
- 2011 Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship
- 2007 Margaret Bridgman Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Published works
Full-Length Poetry Collections
- Annus mirabilis. Barrow Street Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9728302-4-9.
Anthology Publications
- Richard Howard, David Lehman, eds. (1995). “Nocturnal”. The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-684-80151-3. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)