Sara Mae is a genderqueer writer raised on the Chesapeake Bay. Their work examines the surreal, the uncanny, body horror, and intimacy. They are a 2023 Big Ears Music Festival Artist Scholar, a 2022 Tin House Summer Workshops alum, a 2022 Open Mouth Attendee, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholar. Their work appears in or is forthcoming from POETRY, The Georgia Review, Muzzle, and elsewhere. They are a 2017 Individual World Poetry Slam, 2018 National Poetry Slam, and 2018 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Competitor. Their first chapbook, Priestess of Tankinis, is out now via Game Over Books. Their second chapbook, Phantasmagossip, won the Vinyl45 chapbook competition and was released from YesYes Books in spring 2025. They received their MFA from UT Knoxville. They write bedroom pop as The Noisy and currently live in Philly. Let’s talk about the title of the book. What made you think, “This is it! This is the titular poem. And this is what I’m going to call my book.” That’s a good question. A lot of the poems came out of my thesis, which was called Corpse of a Heron with the Face of a Woman, which is an adaptation of a line … Continue reading “A Haunted House is History Insisting on Itself”: An Interview with Sara Mae