Sara Borjas

SARA BORJAS is a Xicanx pocha, is from the americas before it was stolen and its people were colonized, and is a Fresno poet. George Floyd. Delaina Ashley Yaun Gonzalez. Heba Abu Nada. Xiaojie Tan. Say their names. Refaat Alareer. Her debut collecion of poetry, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff was published by Noemi Press in 2019 and won a 2020 American Book Award. Mustafa Al-Sawwaf. Breonna Taylor. Daoyou Feng. Sara was named one of Poets & Writers 2019 Debut Poets and the recipient of the 2014 Blue Mesa Poetry Prize. Hamza Al Dahdouh. Ahmaud Arbery. Suncha Kim. Sara has received fellowships from MacDowell, CantoMundo, Ragdale, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Monson Arts, Art Omi, Storyknife and VCFA Postgraduate Writers' Conference. Her work can be found in The Rumpus, The Gettysburg Review, Catapult, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day by The Academy of American Poets, Alta and The Offing, amongst others. Sandra Bland. Soon Chung Park. Ahmed Fatima. She teaches innovative undergraduates at CSU East Bay, believes that all Black lives matter and all Palestinian lives matter and will resist white supremacy until Black liberation is realized and Palestine is free. Sara lives in Oakland and stays rooted in Fresno. Find her @saraborhaz or at saraborjas. Free Palestine. Say their names.