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sfmontgomery.bsky.social
Author of HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. Forthcoming craft book and flash nonfiction collection. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️‍🌈
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NERVE comes out next week and I’m excited to announce this free virtual craft chat with @thewriterscenter.bsky.social where we will discuss how disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers can unlearn workshop ableism in order to develop their writing practices! writer.org/event/sarah-...

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I’m so excited to share the cover for Abbreviate! This flash nonfiction collection comes out in May with @smallharborpub.bsky.social. A small collection of small essays, Abbreviate examines how the injustice and violence of girlhood leads women to accept—and even claim—small spaces and stories...

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Devastating, remarkable, necessary poems by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social

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It is increasingly dangerous to be sick in America when insurance companies seek to profit from pain. Many thanks to @terrainorg.bsky.social for publishing these four linked poems (and audio!) about navigating our broken American healthcare system. www.terrain.org/2025/poetry/...

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I’m unable to hold and read physical or digital books due to my disability, so I’m thrilled to be recording an audiobook for Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice! The audio and digital books will be available (for free!) from @sundresspub.bsky.social in March.

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Excited to share this new essay about crustaceans, claws, and the ways girls and women must learn to harden ourselves in order to survive. Many thanks to Hunger Mountain for publishing this piece! Read here: hngrmtn.org/issues/hunge...

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So excited to share this excerpt from my flash collection Abbreviate, forthcoming with @smallharborpub.bsky.social in May. Thanks to @dintywmoore.bsky.social for making space for this piece about the ways the world teaches women to build walls around themselves. brevitymag.com/current-issu...

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Many thanks to @ghostcitypress.bsky.social for publishing my poem about being an acquired taste! ghostcitypress.com/poetry0125/2...

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I’ve been reading a lot of ableist back to school posts that focus on attendance and the instructor’s insistence that students who miss class will be penalized for the absence and unable to ask about what they missed.

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Companies adding inefficient AI to everything reminds me of when I was in college and random dudes would drop their entire terrible music collection onto your computer without permission and then croak “you’re welcome” while your computer crashed from corrupt files and a new lack of storage space.

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better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say

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Turned in final edits for Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice today and thought this was a fitting outfit!

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I am so ridiculously pleased to share, finally, that I have a new novel coming out in about nine months called BEINGS and it's about aliens and loneliness and queerness and archives. Eee!

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People say all sorts of awful things to disabled people about our bodies and lives. Here is something a family member said to me (repeatedly!) after my spinal injuries. Many thanks to the editors of Laurel Review for making space for this poem.

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One of my talented former students sent me these darling ornaments featuring my @ohiostatepress.bsky.social and @splitlippress.com books for Christmas! Love seeing these minis twinkling in the lights!

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In addition to our festive attire, we've both celebrated the season by eating cookies for breakfast the last few days!

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One of my favorite emerging writers has a new book available for preorder with an amazing press and a dreamy cover!

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Nothing like the first snow of the season! This photo was from my very good boy’s first snow day, but even a few years later, he still acts like a puppy whenever winter arrives in the woods!

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Excited to share another poem from my aquatic disability project about the transformative power of diagnosis. Many thanks to The Fourth River for giving this poem a home. www.thefourthriver.com/tributaries-...

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End-of-week reminder that this poem by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social exists:

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We're so grateful for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ✨ Contributor @sfmontgomery.bsky.social published her poem, “A Male Doctor Says Maybe the Pain is My Period”, in Pinch Journal 🤩

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Introducing Nerve! This craft book shares my experiences as a disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writer and features ways to unlearn ableist craft advice, strategies for developing a disabled writing practice...

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New poem by @sfmontgomery.bsky.social: "Chronic Pain as Aquarium"

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