“[D]ivulges the spirit of a sensualist and the habits of a contemplative; sometimes vice versa. Colors are separated with the veracity of paint. Shifts in temperature are registered and background noises distinguished, not only for texture’s sake but for their essential contribution to the poems’ substance. Fine foods are sung and individual words lit. For company Sajé summons a curious assortment of lettered forbears including Cotton Mather, Henry Vaughan, Nietzsche, Proust, Gertrude Stein, and Mary Shelley. A virtuous and subtly depraved book is Bend.”
—C.D. Wright

Natasha Sajé’s first book of poems, Red Under the Skin (Pittsburgh, 1994), won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and her second collection, Bend (Tupelo, 2004), was given the Utah Book Award in Poetry. Her book of essays Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory will be published by the University of Michigan Press in 2014. She teaches at Westminster College in Salt Lake City and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program.

Awards

2014 Mark Fischer Poetry Award, Telluride Arts Festival
2008 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America
2004 Utah Poetry Book of the Year, Bend
Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Red Under the Skin, her first book of poems.
Towson State Prize in Literature for Red Under the Skin.
Robert H. Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America.
2002 Campbell Corner Poetry Prize.