Sarah A. Etlinger is an English professor who lives in Milwaukee, WI, with her family. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, she is the author of 4 books; most recently, A Bright Wound (Cornerstone Press, April 2024). Recent work appears in Pithead Chapel, Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, and many others, including Orison Book's Best Spiritual Writing 2023 and as Featured Poet for Yetzirah, Minyan Magazine, and Brine. Interests include cooking, baking, birdwatching, and spending time near Lake Michigan.

Other poems on the web by Sarah A. Etlinger:
Four poems
"Letter to Persephone, Before Mother's Day"
"Attachment"
"Ode to Oil"
"The Line Between us is a Wall with a Window"
"Mistletoe"
"Better than We Could Dream to Be"
"Gematriyot"
"In The Watermelon Fields of Kansas"
"Omer"

Sarah A. Etlinger's Website.

About A Bright Wound:

"These poems demonstrate something incredibly rare: wisdom."
—Allison Adair

"Etlinger is an apt poet-storyteller, one willing to take the risk of telling the story . . . not in prose but in verse."
—Jenna Goldsmith

"A delicate and tender examination of the many conflicting facets of the self . . . as well as an interrogation of family history, memory, faith, and landscape."
—Heathen Derr-Smith