Sally Dawidoff earned an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, Subtropics, BOMB, Ploughshares, American Journal of Nursing, New Haven Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. Her adaptation of Ha Jin’s novel The Crazed premiered at Central Works Theatre. She and Georgia June Goldberg won The Commission 2014 with Coming to Know What We’ve Always Known, a multimedia installation of poetry and sculpture. Pets I’ve Known, a song cycle co-written with composer Jason Atkinson, was recorded by soprano Eileen Clark and guitarist Oren Fader. Dawidoff has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and artist-in-residence programs in the United Statesand abroad— Headlands Center for the Arts, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Writers Room/La Casa del Escritor, et al.
Until recently, she taught English and directed the middle-school community service program at The Chapin School in New York City; she currently teaches a poetry workshop at The City University of New York and curates More Speech, a series of cultural events.