Sarah Zale holds master degrees in education, English literature, and Rhetoric & the Teaching of Writing, as well as an MFA in Creative Writing / Poetry from Goddard College. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of Pitkin Review, Goddard’s literary journal. Presently, she teaches writing at Edmonds Community College and Shoreline Community College in the Pacific Northwest.
Recent poetry appears in the anthology, Come Together, Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), which was a finalist for the 2009 Eric Hoffer Award. A collection of her poems, The Art of Folding, (Plain View Press 2010), was inspired by her travels to Israel and Palestine with the Compassionate Listening Project.
Her present commitment is to educate how art and poetry can create a dialogue about the important issues of our day—a dialogue that can hold both sides of an issue without engendering fear or anger. She teaches a course on “War as Myth, Identity, and Wound” to encourage poetry and narratives to facilitate healing caused by war and conflict.
As a 2009 Fellow to the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), Sarah attended the annual seminar for community college faculty and administrators: Global Peace and Security in Community Colleges and the Communities They Serve.
She lives and writes in Port Townsend, Washington, on the Olympic Peninsula.
Please contact Sarah at SarahPoets@olypen.com and
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