Poet and essayist Sarah Heady writes on human geography, American history, and the built environment. She is the author of NIAGARA TRANSNATIONAL (Fourteen Hills, 2013), winner of the 2013 Michael Rubin Book Award in poetry. Her manuscript Corduroy Road was a finalist for the 2013 Omnidawn Poetry Chapbook Prize. She was a writer-in-residence at Art Farm in Marquette, Nebraska in 2013 and is currently at work on a nonfiction project about the Hudson River, 9/11, teenage love, and John Jacob Astor IV.