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Sabrina Orah Mark

Writer

Birth Year
b. 1975
Current City
Athens, Georgia, United States
Birth City
Guadalajara, Mexico
Genre(s)
Poetry, Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Memoir
Author’s Website

Biography

Sabrina Orah Mark is the author of the poetry collections The Babies and Tsim TsumWild Milk, her first book of fiction, was published by Dorothy, a publishing project. Happily, which began as a monthly column on fairytales and motherhood in The Paris Review, was published by Random House in 2023 and won a National Jewish Book Award. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Creative Capital Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.   In addition to teaching private workshops, she currently teaches nonfiction, fiction, and poetry for the Bennington Writing Seminars.

Published Works

Happily (Random House, 2023) 

Wild Milk (Dorothy Project, 2019) 

Tsim Tsum (Saturnalia Books, 2009) 

The Babies (Saturnalia Books, 2004) 

Links to Sample Works

Poetry Foundation

The Very Nervous Family 

Cracked Fairy Tales & the Holocaust 

Profile created by Sabrina Orah Mark.