Robyn Sarah

Robyn Sarah has lived in Montreal since early childhood. Her poetry began appearing in magazines in the early 1970s, while she completed studies at McGill and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. In 1976, she co-founded Villeneuve Publications, and, until 1987, co-edited its poetry chapbook series, which included first titles by August Kleinzahler, A.F. Moritz, and others. The author of nine poetry books and two short story collections, Sarah has also published a book of essays on poetry. A selection of her poems in French translation appeared in 2007. Her poems have been anthologized in Fifteen Canadian Poets x 2 and x 3, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Good Poems for Hard Times (Garrison Keillor), Best Canadian Poems in English (2009 and 2010), and Modern Canadian Poetry: An Anthology (Carcanet, UK, 2010). She is currently poetry editor for Cormorant Books.