Sally Van Doren is an American poet and visual artist from St. Louis, Missouri.

Her father, William M. Van Cleve, is a lawyer and chairman of the St. Louis-based law firm Bryan Cave.

Her poem, "The Sense Series," was the text for a multimedia performance at the Contemporary Art Museum St.

[5] Van Doren was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize for her poem, “Funk,” which appeared in Volume 29.2 of december magazine.

Van Doren was awarded the 2007 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets for her first collection of poems, "Sex at Noon Taxes," which was published in the spring of 2008 by LSU Press.