Sara Louise "Sally" Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of Annus Mirabilis (Barrow Street Press, 2005). Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Rivendell, Slate, Threepenny Review, Salmagundi, The Southwest Review, The Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction.
Life She earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Beloit College, and worked in the Arts and Sciences at.Washington University in St. Louis International Writers Center. She is associate director of Four Way Books. She teaches at Arizona State University. She was a 2012 James Merrill House Fellow in Stonington, Connecticut.
Honors and awards 2011 Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship 2007 Margaret Bridgman Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Published works Full-Length Poetry Collections Hold Sway, Barrow Street Press. Forthcoming April 2019.
Wreck Me, Barrow Street Press, 2013. Anthology Publications
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Author Website Poems: "Dear Matthew" and others, Narrative, Spring 2011 Poem: "One Story of Conversion", Poetry Daily Poems: "In Hannover: Clairvoyance", Drunken Boat, Spring 2005 Poems: "Gymnasium", Ploughshares, Winter 1996–97 Poems: "Questiones, Ploughshares, Spring 2004 Poem: "Visiting the Real Ranch", slate, July 15, 2008 Poems: "Sound Bow, Lip, Mouth"; "Phobic Darling"; "After Valentine's Day", Locus Point, 31 August 2008