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 will begin her PhD in English at UCLA this fall.
Her academic interests include: technology and labor; philosophy of technology; religious studies; and 20-21st c. film & literature.
She is working on a poetry collection, novel, and some essays. She lives in California with her partner + two very good dogs.
Selected Work
Fiction
“Hometown Heroes,” The Sun (June 2025)
Poetry
Two Poems, The Margins (2023)
“Time Travel,” DIALOGIST (2023)
“Nail Salon (봉선화 물 or Balsamina Water),” Cream City Review (2022)
“Little Boy Little House Little World,” No Contact (2022)
“A Poem Before Your Death,” Poetry South (2022)
Academic (Peer-Reviewed)
Mirror Surfaces: Duplicity in Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, Situations (2026)