Sarah Stickney's poems have appeared in journals such as Crazyhorse, Massachusetts Review, Guesthouse Lit, Forklift Ohio, and others. Her chapbook Portico was selected by Thomas Lux as 2016 winner of Emrys Press's annual competition. Her co-translations of Elisa Biagini's selected poems, The Guest in the Wood, won the Best Translated Book Award for poetry in 2014, and a more complete collection of Biagini’s translated work To the Teeth was published in September 2021. Her first full-length book of poetry, A Lion, is forthcoming from MadHat press. Stickney teaches at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.