Sara Shea

Sara Shea received her BA from Kenyon College, where she served as Student Associate Editor for The Kenyon Review, and studied with David Foster Wallace. While studying abroad at Exeter University in the UK in 2000, Shea won a “New Millennium Poetry Contest” sponsored by The Queen of England, British Parliament, and judged by UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. Shea pursued graduate classes through UNCA's Smokey Mountain Writers Program and Western Carolina University, where she studied under Ron Rash. In 2013, her short story "Shine" won the grand prize for creative non-fiction through Quarterly West, and Shea was awarded a fellowship to Writers@Work. Her stories and poems have appeared in The Connecticut River Review, Quarterly West, The Key West Love Poetry Anthology, Amsterdam Review, The Ledge, Wrath-Bearing Tree, and Petigru Review. Shea writes professionally, producing marketing materials for a fine arts gallery in Asheville, NC and crafting compelling SEO property descriptions for luxury homes worldwide.