Sara Vander Zwaag is a poet and holistic health coach living in Oakland, CA. She received her MFA from Saint Mary’s College of California in 2013. Her debut chapbook, GOOD RIVER was published by White Stag Press in January 2021. Her work has also appeared in The White Stag Journal, The Offending Adam, and Volume Poetry. She was the recipient of the 2011 Lannan Poetry Prize as well as a scholarship to the New York Summer Writer’s Institute.