Robyn Sarah

A Montrealer from early childhood, Robyn Sarah is a poet, writer, literary editor, and musician.  She taught in the English department of Champlain Regional College from 1975 to 1995, and is the author of ten poetry collections, most notably My Shoes Are Killing Me, winner of the Governor General’s Award in 2015. She has also published two story collections, a book of essays on poetry, and a memoir, Music, Late and Soon (2021), about her early and later years as a serious music student. In 2017 a forty-year retrospective of her poetry, Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems, 1975-2015, appeared with Biblioasis, her publisher since 2009. In September 2025, Biblioasis will publish We’re Somewhere Else Now, her first new poetry collection in a decade. Sarah’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared widely in reviews and anthologies in Canada, the United States, and the U.K. From 2011 to 2020 she served as poetry editor for Cormorant Books.