Sara Henning is the author of the poetry collections  Burn  (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024), a 2022 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection;  Terra Incognita  (Ohio University Press, 2022), winner of the 2021 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize; and  View from True North  (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and the 2019 High Plains Book Award.

She was awarded the 2015  Crazyhorse  Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the 2019 Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award, and scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and Appalachian Writers’ Workshop. Her work has appeared in journals such as  Crab Orchard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, Witness, Meridian,  and the  Cincinnati Review .  She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Marshall University , where she coordinates the A.E. Stringer Visiting Writers Series. (from sarahenningpoet.com)