Sara Michas-Martin (’04, ’08, ’10) is a poet and nonfiction writer who draws inspiration from science and the natural world. Her book Gray Matter (Fordham University Press), was chosen by Susan Wheeler for the Poets Out Loud Prize and nominated for a Colorado Book Award. Current projects include a nonfiction manuscript (Black Boxes) that draws on medical, cultural and natural history to consider how the logic of the maternal body corresponds, or is in tension with, current ecological and social systems. Fire Season, a poetry manuscript in progress, takes on deep ecology and the ethics of care in a moment of environmental precarity. Her work has been supported by a Wallace Stegner fellowship in poetry from Stanford University, grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize, as well as fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Bread Loaf and Community of Writers’ conferences. Recent poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the American Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, CrazyHorse, Harvard Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Kenyon Review, KR Online, New England Review, Poetry Northwest, Terrain.org and elsewhere. www.saramichasmartin.com