Sarah Wider (1976–) is Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and former president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. A scholar of the American Renaissance and Transcendentalism, her work focuses on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, as well as American women writers and Native American literature. She is the author of The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things (2001). Professor Wider collaborated with Daisaku Ikeda on a dialogue serialized in the Japanese women’s magazine Pumpkin (2009–2011) and later published as The Art of True Relations: Conversations on the Poetic Heart of Human Possibility (English edition, 2014). She also contributed to Encountering the Poems of Daisaku Ikeda (2015).