BIO
Sara Rempe is a writer and educator in New York. She earned her BA in creative writing and her MFA in poetry at Hunter College, where she received a teaching fellowship and a Norma Lubetsky Friedman Scholarship. She teaches at Hunter College and Fordham University.
She writes and speaks about maternal mental health and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. She is a frequent collaborator with MomTown and The Motherhood Center of New York.
She was selected as Thinker in Residence by Art in Odd Places in 2016. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in The Roanoke Review, The Cape Rock Journal, Snapdragon Journal, AiOP and Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Her feature film, The Last Day of August, can be found on AmazonPrime.
PUBLICATIONS
BORDERLAND (Ghostbird Press 2022)
SCAR TISSUE (High Press Shelf 2021)
BREAKDOWN (Hoxie Gorge Review, December 2019)
AUGUST 1994 (Hoxie Gorge Review, December 2019)
REUNION (Roanoke Review, November 2019)
CHARACTER (The Cape Rock: Poetry, May 2019)
RESCUE (The Cape Rock: Poetry, May 2019
ALMOST (Snapdragon: A Journal of Art & Healing, December 2018)
MARATHON (Art in Odd Places, 2017)
ICU (Pulse Magazine, Voices from the Heart of Medicine, May 2011)
NEWS
Book
BORDERLAND, poems Ghostbird Press
(Out Now)
Guest Blog
For The Moms with Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders on Mother's Day
(The Motherhood Center, May 2019)
Interviews & Documentaries
Modern Motherhood digital series on TODAY
(June 2019)
Scary Mommy
(August 2019)
CGTN AMERICA
(July 2019)
Talks
Perinatal Mood Disorder, HATCH, NY (2020)
Perinatal Mood Disorder, The Motherhood Center, NY (2018)
PSA: Perinatal Mood Disorders, The Motherhood Center, NY (2018)
Independent Film Making, New Hampshire Film Festival, NH (2012)
NH Screenwriting for Indie Films, Gotham Film Festival, NY (2012)
NY EBTV, East Brunswick Public Library, NJ (2012)
CV
Education
MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry), Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 2006
BA, English, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 2004
Employment
CUNY, HUNTER COLLEGE, New York, NY Adjunct Lecturer 2005-present
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, New York, NY Adjunct Lecturer 2015-2021
SUNNYSIDE FILMS Associate Producer/Screenwriter 2006-2013
Courses Taught
Introduction to Creative Writing
Poetry Workshop
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Fiction Workshop
Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Individual Tutorial, Fiction & Poetry
Multicultural American Literature
Texts & Contexts
Expository Writing
Advanced Expository Writing