About Sally

Sally Andersom Boström, Ph.D. is a poet, culture writer, and literary scholar. Her debut poetry collection Harvest was published in the United States by Kelsay Books in the fall of 2021. Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Humana Obscura, Sweet, and an anthology with Gunpowder Press. You can find links to Sally's writing under Publications. Sally studied Creative Writing at UC Santa Cruz and was nominated for the California Youth Poet Laureate Award. Her poetry has been translated into Czech and Swedish. 

 

In June 2022, she defended her doctoral dissertation in American Literature at Uppsala University in Sweden.  A synopsis of her thesis can be read here.  After completing her doctoral degree, Sally has focused intensively on her creative writing, publishing over 20 poems and essays in European and American journals.  In the spring of 2023, she had a writer's residency in Swedish Lappland, where she finished her second collection of poetry. In July 2023 and again in July 2024, she participated in the Prague Summer Program for Writers. In September 2024 she was on a writer's residency at Villa Sarkia in Finland funded by the  literary association Nuoren Voiman Liitto

 

In August 2023, Sally moved with her family to Liberec, Czechia, to work on a novel about Czech borderlands and her third poetry collection. In August 2024, she started a position as Assistant Professor of English at the Technical University of Liberec. She teaches American culture and literature, and academic and creative writing. 

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Sally leads monthly poetry writing workshops and occasionally works as a literary translator (Swedish to English).  If you are interested in contacting Sally about her creative work, organizing a panel discussion, or poetry reading, please get in touch.