SaraBorjas Faculty Profile

Sara  Borjas

Assistant Professor

What makes me unique

Sara is a self-identified Xicanx pocha and a Fresno poet who teaches courses in creative writing and English. She co-advises Ocaam's Razor, CSUEB's student-run literary magazine and co-hosts the Distinguished Writers Series along with Trinie Dalton. Her debut collection, Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press, 2019) received a 2020 American Book Award. Sara was featured as one of Poets & Writers 2019 Debut Poets. She has received fellowships from MacDowell, Sewanee Writers Conference, CantoMundo, Postgraduate Writers Conference, and Community of Writers at Squaw. Her work can be found in Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Poem-a-Day by The Academy of American Poets, and The Offing, amongst others. She believes that all Black lives matter and will resist white supremacy until Black liberation is realized.

  • Contemporary American Poetry

    Latinx Poetry

    Transgressive Forms and Philosophies in Poetry

    Anti-Racist Creative Writing Pedagogy 

  • M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performative Arts(poetry & screenwriting)B.A. in English Literature
  • Fall Semester 2026

    Course #SecCourse TitleDaysFromToLocationCampus
    ENGL 20401Writing About LiteratureTU10:00AM11:40AMMB-2519Hayward Campus
    ENGL 39001Publishing PracticumTU1:15PM2:55PMMB-1587Hayward Campus
    ENGL 40601Future Paths PoetryTU3:15PM4:55PMMB-2519Hayward Campus