Sarah Riggs

Sarah Riggs (b. 1971, New York City) is an American poet, filmmaker, visual artist, and translator.

She is the author of seven collections of poetry, and as many translations of work from the French.

In 2005, she co-founded the nonprofit art organization Tamaas with her husband, writer Omar Berrada.

From 2006 to 2022, co-edited the literary journal, READ: A Journal of Inter-Translation with the poet Cole Swensen.

She is a member of the bilingual experimental poetry association Double Change.

She taught at University of Michigan, NYU Paris, and Reid Hall until 2014 when she joined the faculty of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

She also teaches at Naropa University Summer Writing Program.

Her films have screened at Anthology Film Archives, the Berlinale, Cinémathèque de Tanger, Jeu de Paume, Tate Modern, 98 Weeks, and others.

She has had solo exhibitions at FiveMyles Gallery (New York), galerie éof (Paris), and Salon du Salon (Marseille).

After living in Paris for over a decade, Riggs returned to New York in 2014.

She lives in Brooklyn with Berrada and their two daughters.

In 2020, Riggs was awarded the Griffin Poetry Prize, the world's largest international prize for a single book of poetry written or translated into English, for her translation of Etel Adnan's TIME (Nightboat, 2019).

In the same year, Adnan and Riggs received the 2020 Best Translated Book Award.

She received her B.A. from Amherst College and her Ph.D. in English from University of Michigan.