Robyn Sarah (born 1949, in New York City) is a Canadian poet and short story writer.^[1]

Raised in Montreal, Quebec, she was educated at McGill University and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec.^[1] She has published several volumes of poetry and short stories, and one book of essays.^[1] In addition to her writing, she has taught English literature at Champlain Regional College, and has served as a poetry editor for Cormorant Books and Porcupine's Quill.^[1]

She won a CBC Literary Award for poetry in 1990,^[1] and a National Magazine Award in 1994 for her short story "Accept My Story".^[1] Her short story collection Promise of Shelter was a shortlisted nominee for the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 1998,^[1] and her poetry collection My Shoes Are Killing Me won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2015.^[2]

Works

Poetry

• The Space Between Sleep and Waking (1981)
• Anyone Skating on That Middle Ground (1984)
• Becoming Light (1987), ISBN 9780920953228
• The Touchstone: Poems New and Selected (1992), ISBN 9780887845284
• Questions about the Stars (1998)
• A Day's Grace (2003), ISBN 978-0-88984-233-5
• Pause for Breath (2009), ISBN 978-1-926845-82-1
• My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015), ISBN 978-1-77196-014-4

Short stories

• A Nice Gazebo (1992)
• Promise of Shelter (1997)

Essays

• Little Eurekas: A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry (2007)