Sarah Mangold is the author of GIRAFFES OF DEVOTION (Kore Press, 2016), ELECTRICAL THEORIES OF FEMININITY (Black Radish Books, 2015) and HOUSEHOLD MECHANICS (New Issues Press, 2002), selected by C. D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the MacDowell Colony, Seattle Arts Commission, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Willapa Bay AIR. She received her BA in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Originally from Oklahoma, she now lives and works in Seattle.