Sarah Mackey Kirby is a Kentucky poet and writer. Her first poetry collection, The Taste of Your Music, was published (Impspired, 2021). She is working on her second book. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Boston Literary Magazine, Connecticut River Review, Impspired Magazine, Muddy River Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MA in teaching and a BA in political science from the University of Louisville. She and her husband live in Louisville, Ky.