The Heart Contracts

Sarah Carey came to poetry from journalism. She edited the Gadsden County Times and reported for weeklies in the Florida Panhandle. She retired in May 2025 after thirty-five years as director of communications at the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine. A North Carolina native raised in Florida, she holds an MA in English with a concentration in creative writing from Florida State University. Her chapbooks are The Heart Contracts (Finishing Line Press, 2016) and Accommodations, winner of the 2018 Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award. The Grief Committee Minutes (Saint Julian Press, 2024), her first full-length collection, was a finalist for the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award; Bloodstream followed from Mercer University Press in 2026.