Sara Akant is a Turkish-American writer and educator. Her first collection, BABETTE, won the Black Box Award in Poetry, and her chapbook, PARADES, won the Omnidawn Chapbook Prize. Recent work appears in The Iowa Review, New Sinews, and at The Paris Review. She lives in Brooklyn, where she runs a Backyard Reading series with Hala Alyan, and teaches writing at Baruch College.