Biography

Aleah (McGee) Sato is a sister, a poet, a girlfriend, a wanderer, a desert dweller, a daughter, a granddaughter, a wildlife advocate, and has more curiosity than she probably needs.

After ten years of traveling and moving around North America, she now resides in the most beautiful place in the world, the Sonoran Desert. At home in this big, dusty bowl, she pulls from the sights, smells, sounds and sensations so alive in such desolation to create poems and stories that touch on the human need for connection to place.

Aleah published her first book, Badlands, in 2006. The chapbook Stillborn Wilderness (Pooka Press) and a second collection, Empire of Moths are scheduled for publication. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and electronic journals, including Blue Fifth Review, Adirondack Review, Shadow Train, juked, Latchkey, Nth Position, Eclectica, Just West of Athens, BlazeVox, and Furnace Review, among others.

A follower of deep ecology, Aleah’s belief is that poetry can transcend time, place and human boundaries. It is the original language, the voice of the divine whole.