Boria Sax (born March 31, 1949) is an American author and lecturer and a teacher at Mercy University.

Boria Sax is probably best known for his writing on human-animal relations, where he has developed a style that combines scholarship with narrative and lyricism.

The publications of Boria Sax include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres.

Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals in the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust (Continuum, 2000) and The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2002).

[1] He received his doctorate in Intellectual History and German from State University of New York, Buffalo.