Sara J. Grossman – Legacies of the Enlightenment

A woman stands in front of a plant leaning on a trellace. She looks at the camera with confidence, not smiling. She has green eyes behind tortiseshell glasses and shoulder length light brown hair and white seeming skin. She wears a blue button-up shirt with one sleeve rolled up to show an arm that ends around the elbow

Sara Grossman Climates Group Leader (2017)
Visiting Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Information, Pennsylvania State University

Sara J. Grossman is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Humanities and Information at Pennsylvania State University. Her research examines the history of climate knowledge, climate archives, and weather data in the United States from the early-nineteenth century to the present. Her poems and essays have been published in Verse Daily, Cincinnati Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, American Literature and elsewhere. Her first book of poems will be published by New Issues Poetry & Prose in 2018. She has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution, National Endowment for the Humanities, The MacDowell Colony, and Hedgebrook. She lives in New York City and State College, Pennsylvania.