Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College, Personal Essay at the 92nd Street Y and conducts individual manuscript conferences at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. She received her B.A. in Russian language and literature from U.C. Berkeley in 1983 and her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College in 2002. Her poems have appeared in The Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry, New Ohio Review, The New York Times, Nimrod, the Paris Review, PBS NewsHour, Plume, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor's The Writers Almanac. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her first book, Talking Underwater, was published by Wind Publications in 2007. In 2008, she was asked to read in the "Love Poems Program" at the Library of Congress. Her second book, Second Skin, was published by Wind Publications in 2010. Her chapbook Galapagos Poems was published by Kattywompus Press in 2016. She lives in Armonk, New York, and Harpswell, Maine, with her husband, John. They share four children, Ben, Angie, Kaitlin and Fiona.

Other poems by Sally Bliumis-Dunn in Verse Daily:
September 10, 2016:   "Blue-footed Boobies" "The doofy guy at the bar..."
July 18, 2011:   "On a Walk" "I wonder if we've taken..."
December 15, 2008:   "Tell it Slant" "Have to sail at an angle..."
November 23, 2007:   "In the Women's Locker Room" "Over the tops of the lockers..."

Books by Sally Bliumis-Dunn:

Other poems on the web by Sally Bliumis-Dunn:
"Startled"
Three poems
"Meaning"
Three poems
"Heart"
Two poems
"Blue Cloud"
Two poems
"Returning"

Sally Bliumis-Dunn's Website.

About Echolocation:

"As a series, the poems in Echolocation swing back and forth from the natural world keenly observed—rain, birds, sunflowers, even a clam—to the contortions of the human heart, mostly caused by hurt and loss. And isn't that where the best poetry resides, between the thing and the emotion, the swan and the grief?"
—Billy Collins

"Echolocation is a collection driven by image and figurative language—often the simile—and Bliumis-Dunn has both power of observation and imagination which she uses to great, lovely, terrifying and always compelling effect in these vivid, near- and far-looking poems."
—Martha Rhodes

"Sally Bliumis-Dunn's spare and stunning lyrics of grief and loss restore us to the clarity, and the clear finality, of our deepest emotions. They are grave and formal while being at the same time almost unbearably human and intimate."
—Vijay Seshadri

"Sally Bliumis-Dunn leaves the reader of Echolocation in deceptively complex verbal landscapes in which both literal and figurative language play off each other with spare yet lapidary results in poems that focus on such everyday subjects as family, animals, loss, the seasons, menopause, and disaster with a compassionate, distilling eye. The voice that emanates from these poems is quiet but deeply resonant with generous stirrings beneath. She writes with what John Keats has called 'disinterestedness'—a clear-headed objectivity that combines lucid narrative with lyrical charge."
—Chard deNiord