Sally Van Doren - Bio

Sally Van Doren’s book, Sex at Noon Taxes, (LSU Press 2008) won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Poems have appeared recently in American Letters and Commentary, Barrow Street, Boulevard, Ellipsis, Lumina, Margie, The New Republic, Southwest Review, 2River, UCity Review, Storyscape and Verse Daily. Her poem, “Preposition,” is featured as an animated film in the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Everywhere program. She has taught in the St. Louis Public Schools and at Washington University in St. Louis.