Sarah Carson was born and raised in Flint, Michigan but now lives in Chicago where she is an associate editor at RHINO. Her poetry has appeared in Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Cream City Review, Cutbank, Diagram, Epiphany, and Strange Machine, among others. She is the author of two chapbooks, Before OnStar (Etched Press, 2010) and Twenty-Two (Finishing Line Press, 2011). In 2011 her poem "Self-Portrait on Pop Rocks" was chosen as one of Wigleaf's Top 50 Short Fictions.