about
Sara Son is a poet and writer from Queens.
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education
She holds an MFA from the Programs in Writing at UC Irvine, where she edited the program's literary journal and received the Excellence in Poetry award. She is a PhD student in English at UCLA, where she is a Cota-Robles fellow.
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evolving interests
technology and labor; philosophy of technology; poetry; psychoanalysis; failure; religious studies; political economy; material historicism; east asian studies; and 20-21st c. literature.
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teaching
She has taught creative writing (poetry + fiction), as well as rhetoric on the topic of AI, climate change, and immigration at UC Irvine. Recently, she taught creative writing to incarcerated undergraduate students at Donovan State Prison, for which she received a Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation Fellowship.
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editorial
2025-26: Poetry Editor for Faultline: Journal of Arts and Letters (UC Irvine)
2026-27: Poetry Editor for Saranac Review (SUNY Plattsburgh)
2026: Poetry Reader for Electric Literature's Emerging Writers Contest
2026-27: Poetry Editor for Saranac Review (SUNY Plattsburgh)
2026: Poetry Reader for Electric Literature's Emerging Writers Contest