Dr. Sarah Jefferies
Dr. Sarah Jefferis is a visiting faculty member at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, where she teaches rhetorical writing, and has been teaching writing in higher education at multiple universities for 26 years. She holds a B.A./M.A. from Hollins, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Cornell, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Binghamton University. Poetry publications include Lucky to Have You (Finishing Line Press, 2026), Forgetting the Salt (Foothills Press, 2008), and What Enters the Mouth (Standing Stone Books, 2017), as well as poems/essays that have appeared in The North American Review, The Catamaran, The Cimarron Review, The American Literary Review, and others. Her article, which explores the intersection of yoga and writing, entitled “Mat to Pen,” is forthcoming in an anthology called Business, Life and Universe. Her research includes Poetry and Yoga, Literacy, the Power of the Pause, DEI, and Justice.