{"id":942,"date":"2012-11-20T18:55:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T18:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/?p=942"},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:44:02","slug":"sarah-certa-her-own-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2012\/11\/20\/sarah-certa-her-own-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Certa: Her Own Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sarah<\/a>
\nNovember 20, 2012<\/p>\n

I graduated from Winona State University in 2010 with a bachelor\u2019s in English and a handful of grad school applications. I didn\u2019t know what I would do next except that I wanted to write poems and stay at home to raise my then-one-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n

In the fall of 2010 I was accepted into the low-residency MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts, which has enabled me to be both a full-time graduate student and a stay-at-home mom.<\/p>\n

But I needed to generate an income, and after pursuing several odd-jobs I started my own photography business. I\u2019ve always loved making photographs, and offering my services to others allows me to work from home as well as it feeds my incessant impulse to create.<\/p>\n

I never sit still for long, though. Currently I also intern for a small poetry press and contribute as an editor for a literary review. It\u2019s important to me to immerse myself in the creative writing community as much as I can.<\/p>\n

Because I\u2019m mostly my own boss some days I still feel like I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing. But then I remember I\u2019m completing my first full-length book of poems, soon I\u2019ll graduate with an MFA, and I\u2019ve been doing it all with my daughter at my side, watching her grow, inside and out.<\/p>\n

Sarah is a regular contributor to the magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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