Author of NERVE (@sundresspub) HALFWAY FROM HOME (@splitlippress) QUITE MAD (@ohiostatepress) and three poetry chaps. Associate Prof.

Boston, MA
Joined January 2015
I'm not on here these days, but I wanted to pop in and share my new book Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice! I’m excited to offer this craft book for free in digital and audiobook versions through @SundressPub!
We are so excited to announce this year's Craft Chaps featuring new essays from Mahreen Sohail, Ching-In Chen, and Sarah Fawn Montgomery! Download yours for free today! sundresspublications.com/cra…
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Endless gratitude to Ona Gritz and @wordgathering for this review of my @SundressPub craft book NERVE, which so beautifully describes how I hoped to position my writing advice for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers.
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My graduate poetry workshop students will be writing and submitting book reviews this fall! If you have a recent/forthcoming poetry collection or chapbook—especially a debut—you’d like them to consider, please let me know!
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SarahFawn Montgomery retweeted
In honor of Disability Pride Month, why not revisit @SF_Montgomery’s article “It Takes Nerve”? We encourage our members and subscribers to read this article and consider steps they can take to develop a more accessible writing workshop. writerschronicle.awpwriter.o…
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For Disability Pride Month I’ve published my first piece of satire! Many thanks to @The_Belladonnas for publishing this piece about how often disabled employees are expected to do free labor in order to make companies and colleagues aware that we exist… thebelladonnacomedy.com/you-…
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For @undersunonline I spoke with @cindysea429 about hybrid forms, writing ’90s girlhood, and the origin stories of several essays in ABBREVIATE. underthesunlitmag.com/abbrev…
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SarahFawn Montgomery retweeted
"I learned to shrink, to abbreviate my stories and my life so that I could be a good girl, a good woman who did not claim space." - @SF_Montgomery HM speaks with Sarah Fawn Montgomery about her new collection, Abbreviate @harbor_review hngrmtn.org/articles/sarah-f…
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Many thanks to Victoria Lilly and @IndieBookView for this thoughtful review that describes my hybrid collection ABBREVIATE as “Poetic and impressionistic—a deeply moving coming-of-age story and a powerful critique of American culture.” independentbookreview.com/20…
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"When I decided to write about my girlhood, these stories of smallness were the ones I wanted to share." -- Sarah Fawn Montgomery's CRAFT column "Not Too Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning" hippocampusmagazine.com/2025…
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Today marks the start of Disability Pride Month and I’m thrilled my @SundressPub NERVE is included in this @CLMPorg reading list along with so many disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent favorites!
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For @LaurelReview I spoke with Luke Rolfes about ableist storytelling conventions, how refusing to apologize for disabled identity can influence our practice, and writing my @SundressPub craft book NERVE. laurelreview.org/sarah-fawn-…
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For Essay Daily I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE. essaydaily.org/2025/06/sarah…
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Only a few days left to register for my virtual ABBREVIATE launch reading on June 18 at 6pm ET! Register here: tinyurl.com/5n863svm
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SarahFawn Montgomery retweeted
On our site today, an interview with @SF_Montgomery about craft choices in her essay collection, Abbreviate, out now with @harbor_review: "Genre, like gender, is a construct..." Link in first comment.
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