sarah sophia yanni

Sarah Yanni (b. 1995) is a Mexican-Egyptian writer and editor in Los Angeles whose work considers daughterhood, nationhood, and the conflicting capacities of language. She is the author of Hard Crush (Wonder Press, 2024) and ternura / tenderness (Bottlecap Press, 2019). A Best of the Net nominee, her work can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pleaides, Mizna, Nat Brut, Wildness, APOGEE, and elsewhere. Formerly, she served as Reviews Editor for Full Stop, Newsletter Editor for Study Hall, Poetry Editor for The Dry River, and Editor for Sublevel. She has also provided editorial support for projects with Semiotext(e), SCI-Arc, CSUDH University Art Gallery, Invisible Dynamics, and others. She holds an MFA from CalArts and presently sits on their Alumni Council.