Sarah Kay

Lioba Schreyer (Ruhr Universität)

Ed. by Matthew Hofer, University of New Mexico
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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Born 19 Jun 1988
Activity 2006-ongoing

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Born in United States
Active in United States

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Poet

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Sarah Kay is a poet, editor, teacher, founder and co-director of Project VOICE. Kay is best known as a spoken word poet and for her TED talk “If I should have a daughter…” (2011). She has published three books,

(2011),

No Matter the Wreckage

(2014) and

The Type

(2016). Beyond that, Kay wrote and performed a one-woman play,

Square One,

at the United Solo Festival in NYC in 2010, for which she won the festival’s “First Sold Out Show” award. She wrote a musical,

Adding Up

, which was performed as a stage reading at Leeds Theater in Providence in 2009. On several trips to India, Kay produced documentary videos and photographs for different organisations, such as Lightning a Billion Lives and Pragati School, while she attended college.

Born on 19 June 1988 to a Japanese American

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Citation: Schreyer, Lioba. "Sarah Kay". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 June 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13885, accessed 23 November 2024.]