Sarah Lindsay is a Lannan Literary Fellow and the author of four poetry collections, most recently Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower from Copper Canyon Press. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and the 2012 Carolyn Kizer Prize, and has appeared in Poetry, the New York Times, Reader's Digest, McSweeney’s, and Parnassus. The John Barr Reading Series, through the generosity of the Poetry Foundation’s first president, annually presents one or two poets of extraordinary accomplishment and promise.