Sara Baxter

Education

• MFA in Creative Writing from Miami University, 2021
• MA in English from Indiana University, 2019

Research Interests

• Creative writing
• Contemporary poetry
• Rhetoric and composition
• Fostering digital literacy in undergraduate writing courses

Grants and Awards

• Digital Gardener Faculty Fellows program, Indiana University, 2024
• Composition Curriculum Innovation Award, Miami University, Oxford, OH, 2022
• Outstanding Graduate Student in English, IU East, Richmond, IN, 2019
• Regional Campus Graduate Fellowship, IU East, Richmond, IN, 2019

Publications

“Suggested Teaching Guide for ‘Complicity and the Rise of the Post-Human Poem’ by Jon D. Lee” AWP: The Writer’s Chronicle, vol. 54, no. 4, 2022

“Decorum” Coastal Shelf, 2021

“Waiting for Help at Home Depot.” Ninth Letter, 2019.

Work in Progress

Tin Roof Affairs: a book-length collection of poems that explores labor, domesticity, sexuality, and gender roles among working-class Americans.