Sasha West

Sasha West is the author of How to Abandon Ship, finalist for the 2025 Kingsley Tufts, and Failure and I Bury the Body, a National Poetry Series selection. Anthologies with her work include The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency. She’s received a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, Inprint’s Verlaine Prize, and two Texas Institute of Letters book awards. As eco-arts collaborative Hammonds + West, her multi-media shows with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Texas A&M, ArtPrize Michigan, Abilene’s Grace Museum, and elsewhere. She teaches at St. Edward’s University.