About

Emma Aylor is the author of Close Red Water (2023), selected by Tina Chang as winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Poetry Northwest, Colorado Review, The Yale Review, Poetry Daily, and elsewhere, and she has received support from the National Park Service’s artist-in-residence program, the Ragdale Foundation, Poetry at Round Top, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle. Originally from Bedford County, Virginia, next to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Aylor lives in Lubbock, Texas, where she is a PhD candidate and instructor of creative writing and literature at Texas Tech University. She is at work on her second book of poems, about art, ekphrasis, chronic pain, and the responsibilities of attention.

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