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Sarah Riggs (b. 1971, New York City) is an American poet, filmmaker, visual artist, and translator. She is the author of eight collections of poetry.
Contents
- Books in English
- Books in French
- Literary Criticism
- Translations
- Film
- Exhibitions
- References
- External links
Her films and films she has produced have screened at Anthology Film Archives, the Berlinale, Cinémathèque de Tanger, Jeu de Paume, Tate Modern, 98 Weeks, The Virginia Woolf Film Festival, and others. [1] [2] [3] [4] She has had solo exhibitions at FiveMyles Gallery (New York), galerie éof (Paris), and Salon du Salon (Marseille). [5]
Her translation of Etel Adnan's TIME (Nightboat, 2019) [6] [7] was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Best Translated Book Award. [8]
In 2005, she co-founded the nonprofit art organization Tamaas which has produced an ongoing poet-to-poet Translation Seminar for twenty years, from which she co-edited the poetry collection Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus Press, 2024) [9] and seven editions of READ: A Journal of Inter-Translation. [10]
She received her B.A. from Amherst College and her Ph.D. in English from University of Michigan. [11] She has previously taught at NYU Paris, Reid Hall, Pratt Institute, and the Naropa University Summer Writing Program. [12] [13] Her mentors include Etel Adnan, Michael Palmer, Cecilia Vicuña, Anne Waldman, and others.
She is a member of the bilingual experimental poetry association Double Change. [14]
