Featured Writer: Emma Bolden

Emma Bolden is the author of three chapbooks of poetry: How to Recognize a Lady, (part of Edge by Edge, the third in Toadlily Press’ Quartet Series); The Mariner’s Wife (Finishing Line Press); and The Sad Epistles (Dancing Girl Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as the Indiana Review, The Journal, The Greensboro Review, Feminist Studies, Prairie Schooner, Redivider, Verse, and on Linebreak.org. She was the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for the 2008 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as a finalist for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Prize and for a Ruth Lily Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation/Poetry magazine. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English in Creative Writing at Georgetown College, where she serves as poetry editor of the Georgetown Review.