Sara Jane Stoner

Sara Jane Stoner is a writer, poet, and teacher who currently serves as coordinator for the First Year Architecture Writing Program at Pratt Institute and teaches in the Language and Thinking Program for the Bard Microcollege at the Care Center in Holyoke. For over a decade, she met 1-on-1 with students at the Center for Writing and Learning at Cooper Union, while also teaching classes on writing, queer theory, education, and 20th century/contemporary literature at Brooklyn and Baruch Colleges, as well as Cooper Union. She has served as a staff member for the New England Literature Program (an experiential learning project and temporary intentional community), and has lead workshops in New York-based community literary organizations like the Poetry Project and Wendy’s Subway, along with teaching classes (the Critical Poesis series) virtually from her home, beginning in 2020. Her publications include Experience in the Medium of Destruction (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2015, nominated for a Lambda Award in Poetry), a chapbook “Grief Hour” (published in Black Warrior Review, 2017), the essay “Failing at Subjects” (VIDA, 2017), the anti-genre performance text “V_NN_ LIVES” from Gloss Press (2021), and most recently, an essay titled “READING” in The Poetry Project Newsletter (2022).

ABD PhD, English and Critical Theory, CUNY Graduate Center

MFA, Poetry/Fiction, Indiana University

BA, English Language and Literature, Smith College