Sally Ball

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Sally Ball
NationalityAmerican
Alma materWilliams College,
Warren Wilson College
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsMargaret Bridgman Fellow

Sara Louise "Sally" Ball is an American poet, editor, and professor. She is the author of Annus Mirabilis (Barrow Street Press, 2005). Her poems and essays have appeared in literary journals and magazines including American Poetry Review, Harvard Review , Pleiades , Ploughshares , Rivendell, Slate , Threepenny Review , Salmagundi, The Southwest Review , The Threepenny Review, Yale Review, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction .

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Life

She earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. She taught at Beloit College, and worked at the Washington University in St. Louis International Writers Center. [1] [2] She is associate director of Four Way Books. [3] [4] She teaches at Arizona State University. [5] . She was a 2012 James Merrill House Fellow in Stonington, CT.

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