Sarah Riggs
Sarah Riggs is a poet and artist based in Brooklyn. She received the 1913 Poetry Prize for her book Pomme & Granite and her translation of Etel Adnan’s Time won the Griffin International Prize and Best Translated Book Award. Word Sightings, her essays on the impact of visual media on US poetry, was published by Routledge. With her partner Omar Berrada, Riggs runs Tamaas, an intercultural arts organization focusing on translation, film, and education, and co-edited Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus). Written during the 2016-2020 Trump presidency, along with The Nerve Epistle (Roof), Lines is her eighth book of poems, forthcoming in May 2025 with Winter Editions, influenced by and dedicated to Lyn Hejinian.