Sarah Ens | |
Occupation: | Poet |
Period: | 2020s–present |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Notableworks: | The World is Mostly Sky, Flyway |
Sarah Ens (born 1992) is a Canadian poet and editor from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] [2]
Ens began publishing poetry in the 2010s. Her first collection of poetry, The World is Mostly Sky, came out in 2020 with Turnstone Press.[3] Her second work, Flyway, is a long poem published in 2022.[4] [5] Her collection The World is Mostly Sky was a finalist for the 2021 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Landsdowne Prize for Poetry in 2022.[6] She has edited and copy edited works of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, and also works as a publicist at University of Manitoba Press.
Her book Flyway won the 2023 ReLit Award for poetry.[7] Flyway was also a finalist for the 2022 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Margaret McWilliams Award.[8]
Raised in Landmark, Manitoba,[9] Ens studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia and completed an MFA in writing at the University of Saskatchewan.[10]