Sarah Stern is the author of But Today is Different and Another Word for Love. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, recently in The American Dream, The Best of Ducts.org, Epiphany, Freefall, and Verse Daily. She is a four-time winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts' Poetry Award. She graduated from Barnard College and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in New York City and is a senior associate at the EastWest Institute.