About

Emma Aylor is the author of Close Red Water (2023), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, The Yale Review, and elsewhere, and she has been artist-in-residence at Petrified Forest National Park and Reynolds Poetry Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Aylor holds a PhD from Texas Tech University, an MFA from the University of Washington, and a BA from William & Mary. She is an assistant professor at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where she teaches creative writing in the BFA and MA programs.

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