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Sara Michas-Martin

Sara Michas-Martin

Sara Michas-Martin is the author of Gray Matter (Fordham University Press, 2014). She teaches creative writing and mindfulness at Stanford and lives in Carmel Valley with her husband and son.

Poetry

July/Aug 2021

Visibly Pregnant

By Sara Michas-Martin

She’s a heated star everyone’s pulled toward cracked planets or a season’s first snow huge what’s coming a soft filling in then roads that send you sliding at the sight […]

May/June 2018

Also Born

By Sara Michas-Martin

I am standing in my underwear, very pregnant, at the top of the stairs. I don’t remember my husband ever taking this photo. Like an image from another era, my […]