Sara Son is a writer and poet from New York. She is an MFA student at UC Irvine, where she has taught poetry, fiction, and rhetoric on AI, climate change, and immigration. Recently, she taught creative writing to incarcerated undergraduate students at Donovan State Prison, for which she received a Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation Fellowship. She is Poetry Editor for Faultline, the journal produced by UC Irvine’s Programs in Writing.

Her academic interests include: the intersection of emerging technologies + gendered labor; Visual Culture Studies; aesthetics of duplication + (re)production in digital / literary objects; Social Reproduction Theory; philosophy of technology; religious studies; and posthumanist ethics. Her latest project examines literature and media to map human-computer interactions onto age-old logics of theology. Previously, she worked at various startups.

She is working on a poetry collection, novel, and some essays. She lives in California with her partner + two very good dogs.