Born in Nebraska and raised in Oklahoma, Sarah Mangold earned her BA in English Literature from the University of Oklahoma and MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

She is the author of Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners (2021, Fordham University Press), selected by Cynthia Hogue for the POL Prize, Giraffes of Devotion (Kore Press, 2016), Electrical Theories of Femininity (Black Radish Books, 2015) and Household Mechanics (New Issues, 2002), selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of grants and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Seattle Arts Commission, Artist Trust, Millay Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, MacDowell, and Willapa Bay AIR. She was the founder and editor of Bird Dog, a print journal of innovative writing and art with a focus on longer poems and work by new women writers (2000-2009).

Mangold's chapbooks include The Atom (Wave Books), Birds I Recall (above/ground), A Copyist, an Astronomer, and a Calendar Expert, (above/ground), The Goddess Can Be Recognized By Her Step (dusie kollektiv), Cupcake Royale (above/ground), I Meant To Be Transparent (LRL e-editions), An Antenna Called the Body (LRL Textile Editions), Parlor (dusie kollektiv & above/ground), Picture Of The Basket (dusie kollektiv), Boxer Rebellion (gong), and Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets). Poems can also be found in Arkansas International, Conjunctions, Conduit, Electric Lit, Field Notes, The Kenyon Review, Interim, La Vague, the Chicago Review, Poetry Northwest, Aufgabe, Versal, Sand, and West Branch.

She lives in Edmonds, Washington where she teaches poetry online and works at the University of Washington.