Sara Dallmayr

Sara Dallmayr was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She attended Western Michigan University and received a BA in English/creative writing/poetry and has worked a variety of jobs including park ranger, administrative assistant at a community development nonprofit, library substitute, professional petsitter, and post office rural mail carrier. She hopes to attend graduate school for creative writing in the next couple of years.

“We Learned We Are Gods,” “Freshman Year, UAF: Fairbanks Fall of ’92” and “Downpour in the Height of Summer”

At eight years of age, we became creators of the universe
We made models of the galaxy with Styrofoam balls
A gritty marble-sized mercury
A sun with rays on the bus floor
Jupiter a fist of moons
The slumped crown of Saturn