Sara Mae is a genderqueer writer raised on the Chesapeake Bay. They are the author of two chapbooks including Phantasmagossip, winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest and released from YesYes Books in 2025. Their first chapbook, Priestess of Tankinis, was published with Game Over Books. They are a 2023 Big Ears Music Festival Artist Scholar, a 2022 Tin House Summer Workshops alum, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholar. They write and release music as The Noisy. They received their MFA from UT Knoxville. Sara Mae is currently based in Philadelphia.
poetry
Phantasmagossip – YesYes Books
The Birth of Venus – The Poetry Foundation
Panhellenic Building Blueprint – The Georgia Review
music
The Noisy – The Secret Ingredient is More Meat
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