About Sally

Sally Anderson Boström, PhD is a poet, culture writer, and literary scholar. Her debut poetry collection, Harvest, was published in the United States by Kelsay Books in 2021. Recent poetry and essays have appeared in Fence, Ms. Magazine, Humana Obscura, Sweet Lit, 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 2024 she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. 

 

Sally has a PhD in American Literature at Uppsala University in Sweden.  A synopsis of her thesis can be read here. After completing her doctoral degree in 2022, Sally turned her focus to 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. 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. She has also received writing grants from the Swedish Writers Union. 

 

Sally currently lives in Liberec, Czechia, where she is working on a novel about Czech borderlands and two new poetry collections. She is Assistant Professor of English at the Technical University of Liberec, where she teaches American culture and literature, academic and creative writing. 

​

Sally 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 reading, please get in touch.