About Sally

Sally Anderson Boström, PhD is a poet, culture writer, and literary scholar. Her debut poetry collection, Harvest, was published in the United States by Kelsay Books in 2021. Recent poetry, essays, and literary translations have appeared in Fence, Literary Mama, Ms. Magazine, and Sweet Lit. 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, completing her doctorate in 2022. Since then, she has returned to her creative writing, publishing over two dozen poems and essays in European and American journals. Her poetry has been translated into Czech and Swedish, and in 2024, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has held writing residencies in Swedish Lapland (spring 2023) and at Villa Sarkia in Finland (September 2024, funded by Nuoren Voiman Liitto). Additionally, she participated in the Prague Summer Program for Writers in 2023 and 2024 and has 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 developing a new poetry collection. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the Technical University of Liberec, where she teaches American culture and literature, along with academic and creative writing.

 

If you're interested in learning more about Sally's creative work, organizing a panel discussion, or scheduling a reading, please get in touch.