Sarah Viren is a writer and translator. Her poetry and prose can be found in AGNI, the Iowa Review, the Colorado Review, The Normal School, and others. Her translations have appeared in the Massachusetts Review and Kenyon Review Online. A graduate of the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program, she has been awarded a Fulbright student fellowship to Colombia, a Kerouac House residency, the audience choice award in the Iron Horse Literary Review film fest, and The Pinch journal’s creative nonfiction prize. She lives with her wife and daughter in Lubbock and is a PhD candidate at Texas Tech University.