Miriam Sagan

Miriam Sagan (born April 27, 1954, in Manhattan, New York) is a U.S. poet, as well as an essayist, memoirist and teacher. She is the author of over a dozen books, and lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is a founding member of the collaborative press Tres Chicas Books.

A graduate of Harvard with an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University, Sagan was one of the editors of the Boston area-based Aspect Magazine with Ed Hogan. In 1980 Hogan shut Aspect down and he, Sagan and others founded Zephyr Press.

She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, Yaddo, MacDowell, Gulkistan in Iceland, Kura Studio in Japan, and other interesting and remote places. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College.

Her intergenerational collaborative team, Maternal Mitochondria (with Isabel Winson-Sagan), has produced text installations in venues ranging from abandoned buildings to galleries to RV parks. Miriam's work has been incised on stoneware as part of two haiku pathways, set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble, and left in Little Free Libraries across the country.

Works

The Art of Love: New and Selected Poems. La Alameda Press. 1994. . Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery. New World Library. 1999. .

The Widow's Coat. Ahsahta Press. 2002. .

Seven Places in America: A Poetic Sojourn. Sherman Asher Publishing. 2015. . Black Rainbow. Sherman Asher Publishing. 2015. . Swimming in Reykjavik. Baba Builders. 2015. Luminosity. Duck Lake Books. 2019. . Bluebeard's Castle. Red Mountain Press. 2019. . A Hundred Cups Of Coffee. Tres Chicas Books. 2019. . Beasts. Red Mountain Press. 2020. . Star Gazing: Poems of Astronomy. Cholla Needles. 2020. . In The Monastery of Fragrance and Panic Poems. 2021. . Shadow on the Minotaur. Red Mountain Press. 2021. . Start Again. Red Mountain Press. 2022. . Stash. Cyberwit. 2022. . Castaway. Red Mountain Press. 2023. . Border Line: 101 Haiku. Cholla Needles. 2023. . Music for Monoliths. Cyberwit. 2023. . Commune of the Golden Sun. Cholla Needles. 2024. .