Sarah Graham
 
Professional/Personal Overview
  Sarah Estes Graham is a writer based in Los Angeles. She writes the "Courage of Our Conniptions" blog for Psychology Today. Her work has appeared in Scientific American, Christian Science Monitor, Agni, Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Drunken Boat, New Orleans Review, Southern Review and others. Her manuscript, "The Hive Bone" has been short-listed for the Crab Orchard Poetry Series, Dorset Prize, Four Way Books Intro Prize, Levine Prize, Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the University of Wisconsin Press Poetry Series.

Sarah has reviewed work for VQR, Meridian and Best New Poets, received grants and conference funding from Bread Loaf, Institute for Humane Studies and U.Va. Her essay on Iraq, "From Rhetoric to Reality" won a $10,000 prize. She has taught composition, poetry and women's studies at U.Va. and JMU, and contributed to book and article projects in religion, politics and social psychology. She received an MFA from U.Va. and a Master's in Religion from Harvard.
Work Samples
 
Multimedia  
(Discovery Channel)
My experience as a research participant with Jim Coan.
Clips  
(Psychology Today , 10/1/2011)
(Scientific American, 10/1/2011)
(The Christian Science Monitor, 5/1/2011)
(University of Virginia Magazine, 11/22/2009)
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 9/1/2009)
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 3/1/2009)
Discusses Georgia O'Keeffe's career and relationship with the University of Virginia, hightlights Elizabeth Turner's research on the artist.
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 12/1/2008)
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 11/15/2008)
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 8/15/2008)
A 40-year effort by U.Va. to acquire the papers of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer finally meets with success.
(University of Virginia Magazine, 8/15/2008)
Brain, Child, a magazine devoted to mothers, attracts a strong following.
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 5/1/2008)
How the College Republicans and University Democrats are shaping and responding to the political scene.
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 5/1/2008)
Local band emerges on the national stage with a deal from Mercury Records.
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 3/1/2008)
Three U.Va. composers create an avant-garde musical robot.
(The University of Virginia Magazine, 9/1/2007)
Profile of Kantara, the world's first Arab-Appalachian band.
Poetry  
(Winning Writers Humor Contest)
(The Innisfree Poetry Journal)
(New Orleans Review)
(Arts & Sciences Magazine)
(Agni Online)
Essays  
(CollegeNET, A&S Online)
Personal  
(Jesse Graham)
Links to Jesse Graham's research with Jon Haidt on the moral foundations of political ideaology and the 'world famous' Graham Family Band...