About & Contact Sarah White
Sarah White spent her early years in Albany, N.Y. and Chatham, Va. Then at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass., she developed two lifelong affections—one for New England, especially its countryside, the other for French and Italian literature, which became central to her reading, scholarship, translation, and teaching. For 23 years, she taught in the Department of French and Italian at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Penn., occasionally publishing poems and stories of her own. After retirement, she moved to Manhattan where she committed herself more fully to her writing although once again her work-life is complicated by the lure of other vocabularies—those of painting, drawing, and collage.
Sarah is mother of two grown sons and grandmother of two teenage girls. In one of her previous lives, she used her Sephardic maiden name, Melhado, and some of her earlier work can be traced by searching for Sarah Melhado White.
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Sarah White's poems and translations have appeared in periodicals like The Paris Review, The Cortland Review, Hanging Loose, and Poetry Daily. Her books include Alice Ages and Ages, Cleopatra Haunts the Hudson and The Poem Has Reasons: A Story of Far Love. She lives, writes, and paints in New York City.