Sarah Getty

Sarah Getty was born in Berwyn, Illinois, on January 27, 1943, and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. She graduated from Stanford University and has a PhD in English from the University of Pennsylvania. 

Getty is the author of two poetry collections: Bring Me Her Heart (Higganum Hill Books, 2006), which received nominations for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and The Land of Milk and Honey (University of South Carolina Press, 2002), winner of the Cambridge Poetry Award. Her poem “Ciphers” has been set to music by Adam Grossman. Her work was anthologized in Birds in the Hand (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).

In 2004, Getty received the New England Poetry Club’s Barbara Bradley Award. She was a Poet in the Schools and led creative writing workshops at both the Bedford Center for the Arts and the Bedford Free Public Library. In July 2006 she served as poet in residence at the Villa Vergiliana near Naples, Italy. 

Getty lived in Bedford, Massachusetts, until her death on November 18, 2009.