Sabrina Orah Mark is an award-winning writer & poet. Happily, her most recent collection of essays on fairytales and motherhood, which began as a monthly column in The Paris Review, recently won a National Jewish Book Award.

Raised in Brooklyn, New York, Mark earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College, Columbia University, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a Doctorate in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of the poetry collections Tsim Tsum, and The Babies (winner of the Saturnalia Book Prize). Her collection of stories, Wild Milk, won the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Short Story and was a finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction.

Mark’s accomplishments include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center, and a Creative Capital Award. In addition to teaching private workshops, she currently teaches nonfiction, fiction and poetry for the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband, Reginald McKnight, and their two sons.

The Visiting Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Department of English, the Office of the Provost and Dean of the Faculty, the Lawrence Parke Murphy and Robert Goldstein Trust, and by generous donations from the extended Whitman community.