Sally Bliumis-Dunn

Sally Bliumis-Dunn is the author of the poetry collections Echolocation (2018), Second Skin (2010), and Talking Underwater (2007), as well as the chapbook Galapagos Poems (2016). Her poems have appeared in From the Fishouse, the New York Times, Nimrod, the Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, RATTLE, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily, and the Writer’s Almanac. In 2008, she was asked to read in the “Love Poems Program” at the Library of Congress.

Bliumis-Dunn earned her BA in Russian language and literature from UC-Berkeley and her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize.

Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry and Creative Writing at Manhattanville College, the Personal Essay at the 92nd Street Y, and offers manuscript conferences at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. She lives with her husband John and their four children.