stephanie sauer

stephanie sauer was raised in rough and ready, california (a real town) where she learned to sew and make art at the kentucky flat school house in 4h. she finished high school at the tecnológico de monterrey in colima, méxico, worked as housekeeping staff in northern new mexico and began undergraduate studies at saint louis university in madrid, spain. upon returning to california, she enlisted in the royal chicano air force and became the first in her family to earn a college degree (sacramento state university). she later earned a master of fine arts from the school of the art institute of chicago (also real). she continues to sew and make art.

she founded copilot press in 2008.

fellow, the corporation of yaddo, 2011
recipient, woodstock byrdcliffe guide residency, 2011
recipient, sacramento metropolitan arts commission grant for public art project, 2010
finalist, poetry center of chicago's 15th annual juried reading, judged by brenda hillman, 2009
recipient, summer literary seminars fiction fellowship, 2009
recipient, art institute of chicago fellowship in writing, judged by elizabeth alexander, 2008
recipient, sundance bookstore poetry scholarship, 2006
finalist, iowa review award for nonfiction, 2005

center for contemporary art, sacramento, 2012
&now: tomorrowland forever festival of new literature, university of california san diego 2011
university of california, merced 2011
university of california, riverside department of theater and center for ideas & society 2011
byrdcliffe theater, new york 2011
california state university summer arts festival 2011
galeria de la raza, san francisco 2011
california state university, sacramento 2010
luna's café & cultural center, sacramento 2010
san francisco art institute 2009
auburn arts building gallery 2009
la raza bookstore & galeria posada, sacramento 2008

books
dream memoirs of a fabulist (collabroation with doug rice, copilot press 2011)
los compas: el chale gallego y'l xorty (collaboration with josé montoya, copilot press 2010)
it's fun to be | naked (collaboration with rachel gontijo de araújo, copilot press 2009)
the noun painter: works by esteban villa mapped by stephanie sauer (copilot press, 2008)

anthologies
jr15, plastique press 2009
la luna: poetry unplugged @ luna's, rattlesnake press 2008

journals
alimentum, 2011
alehouse press, 2008
verse daily, online, 2008
calaveras station, 2006
el abanico, st. louis university, spain 2001

other
sonifolk records (album cover, 2001)
     hamish binns & rafael dominguez: los cuatro puntos cardinales son dos: el norte y el sur

día de los muertos, washington neighborhood center gallery, sacramento 2011
royal chicano air force  2008  artes américas, fresno
festival de la familia  2007  calexpo, sacramento
encounters ii  2007  de young museum, san francisco
   part of the chicano visions: artists on the verge: the cheech marin collection collaborative showing
squeezing gold from acorns  2007 luna's café & cultural center, sacramento
encuentros/encounters  2006  somarts gallery, san francisco
declare yourself liberated  2005  negative space photography co-op, sacramento
open  2002  matrixart, sacramento