Sarah Ahrens

Sarah Ahrens holds degrees in English from Emory University (BA) and Cornell University (MA, PhD). She has taught literature and writing at Cornell University, Auburn Maximum Security Prison, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Her creative nonfiction and academic essays have appeared in Longridge Review, Modern Loss, The Washington Post, Avidly (a Los Angeles Review of Books channel) and Romantic Circles. Her poetic memoir, Mother Minotaur, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (2026). 

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Sarah currently teaches in the Harvard Division of Continuing Education. The course she teaches most often focuses on academic writing and critical reading through the lens of poetry, fiction, and film.

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