Sarah Estes

Sarah Estes is a science writer, essayist and poet based in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Scientific American, New Scientist, Christian Science Monitor, Agni, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Drunken Boat, New Orleans Review,Southern Review, Yahoo! News and others.  Her manuscript has been short-listed for the Crab Orchard Poetry Series,  Dorset Prize, Four Way Books Intro Prize, Levine Prize, Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series. She has an MFA from U.Va. and a Master's in Religion and Culture from Harvard.

Sarah has received grants and conference funding from Bread Loaf,  Institute for Humane Studies and U.Va. Her essay on Iraq, "From Rhetoric to Reality" won a $10,000 prize. She has taught poetry, composition and women's studies at U.Va. and JMU, and contributed to projects on religion, politics and social psychology.