Sarah Audsley

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Sarah Audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont. IG: @saudsley

Reading List

A Poet Asks a Visual Artist: Paolo Arao

Paolo AraoSarah Audsley  | 
Issue 75.2 Spring 2026

I am reminded of the piano every time I sit to weave at my loom. I love the similarities between the piano and the loom. Both devices are creative instruments that rely on the touch of the hand and movement of the body to function. There is a somatic and embodied rhythm in the process of weaving - the repetition is like breathing.

A Poet Asks an Interdisciplinary Visual Artist: Kristen Mills

Kristen MillsSarah Audsley  | 
Issue 75.1 Fall 2025

My work can fall into the surreal, like a dream logic, but I feel that my work is most effective, or the strongest, when logic is applied to illogical situations.

A Poet Asks a Painter

Sarah AudsleyMollie Douthit  | 
Issue 74.1-2 Spring 2025

I think it is crucial to my work that I see the joyful moments I have experienced during such a trying time. I believe my work often holds a bittersweet quality, but the paintings are nearly always about the good things in my life.

In Conversation: A Poet Asks a Sculptor

Sarah Audsley  | 
Issue 73.2 Spring 2024

Poet Sarah Audsley asks artist Kristy Hughes some questions for Shenandoah’s Spring 2024 Issue. As a longtime fan of yours, it was an extra-special pleasure to see your work in person for the first time in the two-person exhibition Speak Nearby at the Colburn Gallery at the University of Vermont. I really enjoyed standing in […]

A Poet Asks a Painter: A Conversation with Paul Wackers

Sarah Audsley  | 
Issue 73.1 Fall 2024

Poet Sarah Audsley asks our featured artist, Paul Wackers, some questions for Shenandoah’s Fall 2023 Issue. Yellow Studio, Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 50in x 60in, 2017 Sarah Audsley: As a long-time admirer of your work, I was wondering if you could describe how you work with the color yellow. In many of your […]