A woman with short hair sitting on a wooden footbridge outdoors, wearing a light pink dress with blue floral patterns, surrounded by blurred trees and foliage in the background.

Sarah Rose Nordgren is a poet, writer, teacher, interdisciplinary thinker, and lover of planet Earth. She is the author of several books, including the forthcoming Wilderment: Creative Writing in the Time of Climate Change, and her work explores the intersections of literature, art, culture, and environmental care.

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Books

  • cover image for feathers: a bird-hat wearer's journal

    Feathers: A Bird-Hat Wearer's Journal

    Combining memoir, history, theory, poetry, and image, Feathers explores women’s complex relationship with birds through the history of feather fashion. Creative Nonfiction.

    Essay Press Book Prize Winner
    Essay Press 2024

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    Darwin's Mother

    The poems in this collection are marked by a tireless curiosity about the intricate workings of life, consciousness, and humanity’s place in the universe. Poetry.

    University of Pittsburgh 2017

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    Best Bones

    This collection reverberates with the overheard desires and griefs of a family, as well as the unresolved concerns of lingering ghosts. Poetry.

    Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Winner
    University of Pittsburgh 2014

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    The Creation Museum

    Nordgren uses the natural history diorama as an emblem for humanity's love of artifice, the interwoven narratives of science, history, and religion, and the power of perspective. Poetry and essay.

    Harbor Editions 2022

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Projects

  • A picture of flowers above which is written The Hybrid Memoir

    Upcoming Course: The Hybrid Memoir

    Instructor
    Upcoming 8-week online workshop, starting September 9, focused on hybrid-genre memoir techniques.

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    Wilderment: Substack

    Author
    A Substack newsletter focused on literature, art, climate change, and culture.

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    Smart Snow

    Collaborator
    A collaboration between choeographer and media artist Kathleen Kelley and poet Nordgren, Smart Snow creates art that pushes the forms of dance and poetry into new technological territories.

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    The School for Living Futures

    Director, Co-Founder
    An interdisciplinary, experimental project dedicated to creating new knowledge and possibility for our climate-changed future.

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