About Sally

Sally Anderson Boström, PhD, is a poet, culture writer, and literary scholar. Her creative work explores vision loss, intimacy, and the afterlives of history. Her debut poetry collection, Harvest, was published in the United States in 2021. Her poems, essays, and literary translations have appeared in Fence, Literary Mama, Ms. Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Elm Leaves Journal, and elsewhere. Her work has been featured in anthologies with Humana Obscura and Gunpowder Press. Links to Sally’s writing can be found under Publications.

 

Sally studied Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz, where she was nominated for the California Youth Poet Laureate Award. She later earned a PhD in American Literature from Uppsala University in Sweden. Since completing her doctorate in 2022, she has returned to creative writing, publishing over two dozen poems and essays in European and American journals. Her poetry has been translated into Czech and Swedish and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and the Engine/idling Dashboard Awards.

 

She has held writing residencies in Swedish Lapland (2023) and at Villa Sarkia in Finland (2024 and 2025). She has also participated in the Prague Summer Program for Writers (2023 and 2024) and received writing grants from the Swedish Writers’ Union.

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Sally lives in Liberec, Czechia where she is writing a novel about the Czech borderlands and two new poetry collections. She is Assistant Professor of English at the Technical University of Liberec, teaching American culture and literature as well as academic and creative writing. She is currently completing a scholarly monograph on plantation memory and culture in Hawai‘i and the Caribbean that is under review with an academic press.

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