Sarah Stickney's poems have appeared in journals such as Crazyhorse, Massachusetts Review, Guesthouse Lit, Forklift Ohio, and others. Her chapbook Portico was selected by Thomas Lux as 2016 winner of Emrys Press's annual competition. Her co-translations of Elisa Biagini's selected poems, The Guest in the Wood, won the Best Translated Book Award for poetry in 2014, and a more complete collection of Biagini’s translated work To the Teeth was published in September 2021. Her translation of Albanian/Italian poet Gëzim Hajdari’s Selected Poems was published by Shearsman Books in January 2025. Her first full-length book of poetry, A Lion, was published by MadHat press in the spring of 2024. Stickney teaches philosophy at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.