MKM Poetry Library

Graduate Student Assistant

The Michael Kuperman Memorial Poetry Library is helped by a Graduate Student Assistant who catalogues and cares for its collections. The intern is also responsible for curating exhibits, helping to run events at the library, and working closely with the Director on special projects.

sarah joy milner

Our current Graduate Student Assistant is Sarah-Joy Milner. Sarah-Joy Milner is an Afro-Indigenous Odawa and Oglala Lakota poet and educator from Ann Arbor, Michigan. An enrolled member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, she holds fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Indigenous Nations Poets, and Sundress Academy of Arts, and her poems are forthcoming in Yellow Medicine Review. A Tin House Summer Workshop participant, her work explores cycles, beginnings, and reclamation. She currently resides in Tampa, Florida, where she is completing her MFA in Creative Writing at the ºÚÁÏÍø³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ as a graduate fellow. 


To apply for the internship, please contact the MKM Poetry Library Director, Natalie Scenters-Zapico