Annita Perez Sawyer - Psychologist, Author, Speaker
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. –Marianne Williamson
Awards and Prizes
2015 Best American Essays, Notable Listing - Southern Humanities Review, "Good Humor"
2014 Wesleyan Writers Conference, Joan Jakobson Fellow
2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Nonfiction Grand Prize, Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass
Lee Gutkind, Judge
2013 Best American Essays, Notable listing - Bellevue Literary Review, “The Crazy One”
2012 Literal Latte Essay Award, first prize, “The Other Chair”
2012 Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Bernard O’Keefe Scholar, nonfiction
2012 Bellevue Literary Review Burns Archive Nonfiction Prize, “The Crazy One”
Susan Orlean, Judge
2008 Yale Faculty Award: Outstanding Supervisor, pre-doctoral fellows, Psychology
Anthologies
Show me all your scars, Lee Gutkind, ed, 2016, InFact Books
Same Time Next Week Lee Gutkind, ed, 2015, InFact Books
Celebrate the Wounded Healer; Beware the Wounded Healer, Sharon Farber, ed, 2017, Routeledge
Artist Residencies
Vermont Studio Center - 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Ragdale- 2010, 2015
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts - 2010, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2022
Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences - 2011, 2016, 2019
MacDowell - 2012
Millay Arts - 2013
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts - 2020
Monson Arts Residency - 2022
Foundation House Artists Residency - 2023
Professional Presentations
2023 - Denver Psychoanalytic Society - Conference, Speaker
2022 - Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Speaker
2020 - 31st Annual International Trauma Conference, Keynote Speaker
2018 - 9th International Ayurveda and Health Symposium, Speaker
2018 - Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society - Series Speaker
2017 - October - Seattle University, Lived Experience Series, Speaker
2017 - April - Seattle University, MAC clinical psychology graduate program, Speaker
2017 - International Ayurveda and Health Spiritual Conclave, UConn, Speaker
2015 - Albertus Magnus College, Creative Writing Program, Guest Speaker
2015 - Mercy College, Masters in Mental Health Counseling reception, Guest Speaker
2015 - Milford Public Schools, Professional Development Presentation
2013 - Psychiatry Grand Rounds, RUMI Staten Island, NY, Speaker
2013 - The Bridge of Central Massachusetts, Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker
2013 Healing the Generations Conference, workshop
2013 9th Annual Yale - NEA BPD Conference, Speaker link to online video
2012 Yale Resident Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Speaker
2009 CT Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology Panel, “Conversing with Uncertainty”
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