Assistant Professor Sasha Debevec-McKenney

Sasha Debevec-McKenney is the author of the poetry collection Joy Is My Middle Name (Fitzcarraldo Editions and W.W. Norton, 2025). She teaches poetry and creative writing at Grand Valley. Sasha received her MFA from New York University, was the 2020–2021 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, and a 2023-2025 Creative Writing Fellow at Emory University. Her poems have appeared in places like The New Yorker, The Yale Review, The Drift, and Granta. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

• M.F.A., Creative Writing, New York University
• B.A., Creative Writing/American Studies, Beloit College

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