Sarah Riggs

Sarah Riggs is a poet, artist, filmmaker and translator.  Her recent books of poetry include The Nerve Epistle (Roof), Eavesdrop (Chax), and Lines (Winter Editions, spring 2025). She showed her painting series The Emotional Earth in Marseille for the Salon du Salon in 2023, and Riggs is featured drawing in the film Poetry, New York.  Riggs' film Six Lives showed in 2023 in São Paolo in the Virginia Woolf Film Festival. Recent translations from the French include Etel Adnan's Time and Liliane Giraudon's Love is Colder than the Lake (co-translated with Lindsay Turner) both out with Nightboat, and Olivia Elias' Your Name, Palestine (co-translated with Jérémy Robert) published by World Poetry Books.  Sarah Riggs lives in Brooklyn with her partner Omar Berrada, with whom she runs tamaas.org, and edited Another Room to Live In: 15 Contemporary Arab Poets (Litmus). Some of her work is available to read and view at www.sarahriggs.org

2025 Events
Open Ensemble
Winter Editions Reading