Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches the Personal Essay at the 92nd Street Y, offers individual poetry manuscript conferences and serves as an Associate Editor-at-large for Plume. She received her B.A. in Russian language and literature from U.C. Berkeley in 1983 and her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002. Her poems have appeared in From the Fishouse, The New York Times, Nimrod, Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry,Verse Daily and Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her first book, Talking Underwater was published by Wind Publications in 2007. In 2008, she was asked to read in the “Love Poems Program” at the Library of Congress. Her second book, Second Skin was published by Wind Publications in 2010. Her chapbook, Galapagos Poems was published by Kattywompus Press in 2016. Her third book, Echolocation, was published by Plume Editions/MadHat Press in March of 2018. Echolocation was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer, long-listed for the Julie Suk Award and the runner up for Poetry by the Sea Prize. Her fourth book, Alive in These Woods, was published by Červená Barva Press in 2026. She lives with her husband, John. They share four children, Ben, Angie, Kaitlin and Fiona.
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