Sara Slingerland Sheiner is a poet, diviner, and independent scholar from Shawangunk, New York. Her manuscript, Of Lack, has been chosen for honorable mention in Seneca Review’s 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, a runner-up for Tupelo’s 2021 Berkshire Prize, judged by Victoria Chang, a finalist in the 2020 Essay Press Book Contest, judged by Renee Gladman, and a semi-finalist in the 2020 + 2022 Wisconsin Poetry Series' prizes. She is currently working on a book-length poem, a 'contraepic,' titled The Field. She has a doctorate in the literary arts from the University of Denver, a master’s degree in creative writing from Virginia Tech, & was the poet-in-residence at Randolph College in 2017.