Sarah Katz earned her MFA from American University, where she received the Myra Sklarew Award for Poetry. Her poems and flash fiction appear or are forthcoming in Deaf Lit Extravaganza (Handtype Press, 2013), District Lit, jmww, MiPOesias, RHINO, the So to Speak blog, and others; her book reviews, on Heavy Feather Review, NANO Fiction, and the Ploughshares blog. She received the 2015 District Lit Prize for Poetry, and works as Publications Assistant at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. This is her first personal essay publication.
We suffer, after all, not because of the ways we speak, but because of the ways we exclude ourselves with internalized external narratives about how different we feel from others.