Sarah Peecher
Poet, Educator, MFA
Sarah Peecher is a poet living and working in Chicago. She holds a Creative Writing MFA degree from Columbia College Chicago and was a Nathan Breitling Poetry Fellow. Her project with her co-curator, Off the Page, was recently awarded a DCASE grant for their forthcoming exhibition in 2026. Her recent work appears in Agapanthus, Bluestem, and The Lincoln Review and more. She has taught undergraduate writing courses at Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University.
Education
Editorial Experience
Teaching Experience
Curatorial Experience
2021-2023
Columbia College Chicago
2017-2019
Hope College
Holland, MI
2015-2017
Parkland College
Champaign, IL
MFA in Creative Writing
BA in English: Creative Writing
General education
2024
Alongside a team of readers led by the Poetry Editor, I discussed and recommended poems from a group of submissions for the debut issue of Unwoven.
Spring 2022
As a member of the acquisition editorial team for Allium, I evaluated solicited and unsolicited manuscripts from poets for inclusion in the magazine.
2019-2020
As a reporter and editorial assistant, I covered feature and regional stories and reported on local education issues and two school districts. I also edited school, religion, and art event listings and copy-edited on deadline each week. Using a content management system and SEO techniques, I published stories and photos to the publication's website.
2018-2019
As Co-Editor-in-Chief, I managed a staff of 20 peer colleagues. I led beginning-of-semester training sessions on AP-style news writing and reporting for new staff members, supervised the editing and production of the weekly print and online publication, and planned and executed a project to find a new printing partner and redesign the publication.
2025-current
As Associate Editor, I read and select submissions for publication for New Voices series and annual contests, collaboratively narrowing contest longlists down to shortlists with the EIC. I also curate and write a monthly column or interview series.
Spring & Fall 2024, Spring 2025
ENG 102 Composition II: Introduction to Academic Research
Fall 2023
ENG 101 Composition I: Critical Reading & Writing
Spring 2022, 2023
ENGL 112 Writing & Rhetoric II
Fall 2022, 2023
ENGL 111 Writing & Rhetoric I (hybrid course FA22 only)
Fall 2021
CCCX 131 Big
Chicago: Epicenter
of Popular Culture
In this undergraduate course, I led students through analyzing rhetoric and the process of composing their own work, from conceptualization to revision to editing.
In this undergraduate course, I led students through analyzing rhetoric and the process of composing their own work, from conceptualization to revision to editing.
As a graduate student instructor and later adjunct, I taught students how to immerse themselves in and contribute to intellectual conversations through writing.
In this introductory writing course, I led students through the process of composition with their artistic fields in mind, from conceptualization to revision to editing.
As a graduate teaching assistant, I led small group discussions and graded student work for this online-only undergraduate course.
2023-current
I worked alongside my co-curator to bring our poetry to life in a collaborative project with two artists. Issue 1 was on display at Columbia College Chicago in winter of 2023, with Issue 1.5 following shortly in 2024 at Gallery Wrightwood.
