Sasha is a poet who studies the presidents.
Selected Writing
“Hartford Hospital, November, Barack Obama is President”
The New Yorker, January 2025
“Grudge Person”
The Greensboro Review,
October 2023
“After Watching National Treasure for the First Time”
The Yale Review, June 2023
“Like”
The Yale Review, June 2023
“Prayer Poem”
The New York Review of Books, May 2023
“Plan B”
Guernica, August 2022
“I DON’T WANT TO FALL IN LOVE BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO GAIN WEIGHT”
bath magg, January 2022
“How to Eat at a Restaurant”
Tone Madison, January 2022
“Kaepernick”
The New Yorker, November 2021
“POLITICAL CONTAINER,”
“ON DAYS I BELIEVE IN THE DEATH PENALTY”
TriQuarterly, June 2021
“The Work Is All Around Us”
Tone Madison, February 2021
“STAND UP ROUTINE,”
“HOW TO TELL IF YOU WERE DATING”
Underblong, December 2020
“AND WHO WOULD YOU PREFER TOLD THE STORY?”
The Drift, October 2020
“YOUR BRAIN IS NOT A PRISON!”
Poem-A-Day, June 2020
“I BRING THE WART REMOVAL KIT WITH ME TO THE JULY 4TH PARTY”
Nashville Review, April 2020
“When I Met Sharon Olds She Told Me to Write a Poem about LBJ’s Penis,”
The Yale Review, January 2020
“Cento for the Night I Tried Stand-Up”
The Yale Review, December 2024
“I Went Out to See All The Downed Trees”
The Poetry Review, September, 2024
"Cardi B @ The Breakers”
Peach Mag, July 2018
“First African American Bachelorette, 2017,”
Peach Mag, July 2018
Sasha is the author of the poetry collection JOY IS MY MIDDLE NAME, which will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions and W.W. Norton in 2025.
She received her MFA from NYU and is currently a Creative Writing fellow at Emory University. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut and now lives in Decatur, Georgia, where she is five foot eleven.
