Sarah Plimpton was born in New York City and divides her time between New York and France. She attended Smith College, Harvard Medical School and Pratt Institute in Manhattan. She works in several media; oil painting, printmaking and artists' books and is also a poet. Two Galleries show her work on a regular basis - June Kelly in New York and Ute Barth in Zurich. She has been in many group shows including The Center for Book Arts, St Johns University, and Kate Ganz in New York. Her work is in such public collections as The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New York Public Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The creation of artists books link my poems and my art. The books alternate between woodcuts and aquatints, pochoir and silkscreen. I do not consciously try to illustrate the poems. I work seperately and then put the two together, matching at the last minute the illustrated page to the print; an abstract image with words. Shapes pushing against each other create a sense of compression or intrusion. The balance of these shapes with words is what interests me, the play of geometrical shapes against the poems which deal with light vision, color and painting or art itself. This balance of word and text is what interests me.