Biography
Annaka Saari is a writer, teacher, editor, and administrator from Michigan. She received her BA from The University of Michigan in 2020 and her MFA from Boston University in 2021. She has taught Creative Writing for both undergraduate and high school students, and has facilitated writing workshops for incarcerated men and adults who identify as victims of sexual or domestic violence. She currently serves as the administrator for Boston University’s Creative Writing Program, the managing editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, a headline contributor for Reductress, and a poetry reader for The Los Angeles Review.
Annaka Saari is a writer, teacher, editor, and administrator from Michigan. She received her BA from The University of Michigan in 2020 and her MFA from Boston University in 2021. She has taught Creative Writing for both undergraduate and high school students, and has facilitated writing workshops for incarcerated men and adults who identify as victims of sexual or domestic violence. She currently serves as the administrator for Boston University’s Creative Writing Program, the managing editor for Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, a headline contributor for Reductress, and a poetry reader for The Los Angeles Review.
Selected Writings
“The Morning After” [Poem]
Plume (forthcoming)
“Curtain” [Poem]
Pangyrus
“You of Little Faith” [Essay]
Image #121
“Creation in Collaboration: Christianne Goodwin and Stephen Proski’s Oracle Smoke Machine” [Review]Psaltery and Lyre
“List Poem in Which There Is at Least One Lie” [Poem]
The Maine Review Issue 10.1
“Bad Boys and Birdsong: Heroes of Detroit” [Essay]
Cleveland Review of Books
“Poem Beginning and Ending with a Fur-Bearing Trout” [Poem]
The Southern Review Spring 2024 (Print Only)
“Diptych” [Poem]
MQR Mixtape Issue 13
“Scheherazade, Tired” [Poem]
Volume Vol. 4, Issue 1
“During an argument my sister says at least I’m not fat” [Poem]
Pleiades 43.2 (Print Only) Finalist for the Prufer Poetry Prize
“Beach, Lake Michigan” [Poem]
Peninsula Arts Magazine Issue No. 1 (Print Only)
“1975: Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan” [Essay]Hanif Abdurraqib’s 68to05 project
“Learning to Be Flexible” [Poem] Poetry Wales’ “How to Write a Poem” series
“Patient Preferences in Cases of Inter-System Medical Error Discovery” (with Alexis Antunez, Jacquelyn Miller, and Lesly Dosset) [Academic Paper]
Annals of Surgery Volume 273 - Issue 3 - pages 516-522
“Applications Welcome” [Poem]Ghost City Review June 2018 Issue
Plume (forthcoming)
“Curtain” [Poem]
Pangyrus
“You of Little Faith” [Essay]
Image #121
“Creation in Collaboration: Christianne Goodwin and Stephen Proski’s Oracle Smoke Machine” [Review]Psaltery and Lyre
“List Poem in Which There Is at Least One Lie” [Poem]
The Maine Review Issue 10.1
“Bad Boys and Birdsong: Heroes of Detroit” [Essay]
Cleveland Review of Books
“Poem Beginning and Ending with a Fur-Bearing Trout” [Poem]
The Southern Review Spring 2024 (Print Only)
“Diptych” [Poem]
MQR Mixtape Issue 13
“Scheherazade, Tired” [Poem]
Volume Vol. 4, Issue 1
“During an argument my sister says at least I’m not fat” [Poem]
Pleiades 43.2 (Print Only) Finalist for the Prufer Poetry Prize
“Beach, Lake Michigan” [Poem]
Peninsula Arts Magazine Issue No. 1 (Print Only)
“1975: Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan” [Essay]Hanif Abdurraqib’s 68to05 project
“Learning to Be Flexible” [Poem] Poetry Wales’ “How to Write a Poem” series
“Patient Preferences in Cases of Inter-System Medical Error Discovery” (with Alexis Antunez, Jacquelyn Miller, and Lesly Dosset) [Academic Paper]
Annals of Surgery Volume 273 - Issue 3 - pages 516-522
“Applications Welcome” [Poem]Ghost City Review June 2018 Issue