Sara Watson
Our Imaginary Childhood is available now from Finishing Line Press!
My full-length poetry manuscript,
Sara Watson is a feminist poet and educator with a Ph.D. in English & Comparative Literature and a certificate in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies from the University of Cincinnati. She was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania and raised at a series of keg parties. She lives with animals in Pittsburgh.
Poems
"Our Corresponding and Heart-Shaped Tattoos" | Miracle Monocle
"I Have a Headache and I Hate Everything That Happened Today" | Miracle Monocle
"Women in Paradise" | BOAAT
"All I Want is Boundless Love" | BOAAT
"To Choose Each Other Perpetually" | Rattle
"These are My Feelings" | Academy of American Poets
"My Father's Heart" | The Minnesota Review
"My Mother is a Cowboy" | PANK
"Month of Sundays" | PANK
"Ghost Story" | PANK
"Our Imaginary Childhood" | PANK
More
"Half-Drowned and Just Trying: A Re-View of Heather June Gibbons's Her Mouth as Souvenir" | The Bind
"Runner's Log for Jesica Jacobs's In Whatever Light Left to Us" | The Bind
"Interview with Sara Watson of the Cincinnati Review" | The Minnesota Review
"Books We Can't Quit: The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers" | PANK
Teaching
University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Lecturer
Fall 2020-present
Professional Uses of Social Media
Persuasive Writing in Advertising
Introduction to Feminist Theory
Seminar in Composition: Gender Studies
Chatham University, Senior Adjunct Instructor
Spring 2018-present
Intro to Creative Writing
Special Topics: Girlhood (online)
Academic Writing (online)
Advanced Writing and Stylistics
Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies
Feminist Theory
Teaching Areas
American Literature
Composition / First-Year Writing
Feminist Theory
Intro, Intermediate, & Advanced Poetry
Literary Publishing
Multi-genre Creative Writing
Queer Literature
Queer Theory
Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Writing the Academic Essay
Prospective Courses
Queer Voices, Queer Forms
Women's Wilderness Narratives
American Girlhood
Feminist Poetics
Lesbian Literature
