Miriam Sagan (born April 27, 1954, in Manhattan, New York)^[1] is a U.S. poet, as well as an essayist, memoirist and teacher.^[2][3] She is the author of over a dozen books, and lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico.^[4] She is a founding member of the collaborative press Tres Chicas Books.^[5]

A graduate of Harvard with an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University, Sagan was one of the editors of the Boston area-based Aspect Magazine with Ed Hogan.^[6] In 1980 Hogan shut Aspect down and he, Sagan and others founded Zephyr Press.^[7]

She has been a writer in residence in four national parks, Yaddo,^[8] MacDowell,^[9] Gulkistan in Iceland,^[10] Kura Studio in Japan,^[11] and other interesting and remote places. She founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College.^[12]

Her intergenerational collaborative team, Maternal Mitochondria (with Isabel Winson-Sagan),^[13] has produced text installations in venues ranging from abandoned buildings to galleries to RV parks.^[14] Miriam's work has been incised on stoneware as part of two haiku pathways,^[15] set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Ensemble,^[16] and left in Little Free Libraries across the country.^[17]

Works

• The Art of Love: New and Selected Poems. La Alameda Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0963190925.
• Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen Monastery. New World Library. 1999. ISBN 978-1577311058.
• Unbroken Line: Writing in the Lineage of Poetry. Sherman Asher Publishing. 1999. ISBN 978-1-890932-08-4.
• Archeology Of Desire. Red Hen Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-888996-32-6.
• The Widow's Coat. Ahsahta Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0916272678.
• Searching For A Mustard Seed: One Young Widow's Unconventional Story. Quality Words In Print. 2003. ISBN 978-0-9713160-3-4.
• Rag Trade: Poems. La Alameda Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-888809-42-8.
• Gossip. Small Press Distribution, Tres Chicas Books. 2007. ISBN 978-1-893003-11-8.
• Map Of The Lost. University of New Mexico Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8263-4160-0.
• Love & Death:Greatest Hits. Small Press Distribution, Tres Chicas Books. 2011. ISBN 978-1-893003-03-3.
• Seven Places in America: A Poetic Sojourn. Sherman Asher Publishing. 2015. ISBN 978-1890932428.
• Black Rainbow. Sherman Asher Publishing. 2015. ISBN 978-1890932480.
• Swimming in Reykjavik. Baba Builders. 2015.
• Luminosity. Duck Lake Books. 2019. ISBN 978-1943900084.
• Bluebeard's Castle. Red Mountain Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1732650138.
• A Hundred Cups Of Coffee. Tres Chicas Books. 2019. ISBN 978-1893003231.
• Beasts. Red Mountain Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1732650169.
• Star Gazing: Poems of Astronomy. Cholla Needles. 2020. ISBN 979-8651830473.
• In The Monastery of Fragrance and Panic Poems. 2021. ISBN 978-9390601523.
• Shadow on the Minotaur. Red Mountain Press. 2021. ISBN 978-1952204050.
• Start Again. Red Mountain Press. 2022. ISBN 978-1952204241.
• Stash. Cyberwit. 2022. ISBN 978-8182539266.
• Castaway. Red Mountain Press. 2023. ISBN 978-1952204159.
• Border Line: 101 Haiku. Cholla Needles. 2023. ISBN 979-8369733356.
• Music for Monoliths. Cyberwit. 2023. ISBN 978-8119228874.
• Commune of the Golden Sun. Cholla Needles. 2024. ISBN 979-8369733356.