Sarah Beddow is a poet, educator, wife, and mother. She is the author of Dispatches from Frontier Schools (Riot in Your Throat), a memoir-in-prose-poems, and the chapbook What's pink & shiny/what's dark and hard (Porkbelly Press). Her essays and poems have appeared in Bone Bouquet, Menacing Hedge, Rogue Agent, GlitterMOB, and elsewhere. Sarah is a founding editor of the Pittsburgh Poetry Houses, a public art project, and on the board of Awesome Pittsburgh, which grants money – cold hard cash with no strings attached – to people or groups with brilliant ideas. Sarah lives with her husband and two children in her childhood home.