Sarah Ens is a writer and editor based in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg, MB). Winner of The New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest and Room Magazine's Short Forms Contest, she has published poetry and non-fiction in numerous literary journals. Her debut collection of poetry, The World Is Mostly Sky (Turnstone Press), was shortlisted for two Manitoba Book Awards, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award and the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Her second book, Flyway, (Turnstone Press) launched spring 2022.
Sarah holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan.
A freelance editor and copyeditor on a variety of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry projects, Sarah is also the promotions and publicity coordinator at University of Manitoba Press.