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Emily Spencer
Visiting Assistant Professor,
Heanon Wilkins Faculty Fellow
English
Tags: Heanon Wilkins Faculty Fellow, english

Emily Spencer

Contact Info

513-529-5221
356 Bachelor Hall

Education

  • M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa Writers' Workshop
  • B.A., The Ohio State University

Teaching and Research Interests

  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Creative Writing
  • Writing and Health Science
  • Confessional Narrative
  • African American Writing
  • Social Poetics

Selected Publications

Book

East Walnut Hills, Clarksville, TN: Zone 3 Press, 2021.

Forthcoming Chapbook

Translate Neighbor, Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2022.

Selected Poems Online

"Sky" January, 2021. Poetry.
"Santa Maria Novella" July, 2020. The Florida Review.
"I'm Not Interested" September, 2019. Kenyon Review.
"Crucible Steel" January, 2019. Pleiades.

Grants and Awards

  • Finalist, Ohioana Book Award
  • Winner, Zone 3 Press First Book Award in Poetry
  • Global Writing Fellowship, Boston University

Work in Progress

Emily Spencer is writing, Translate Neighbor, a chapbook utilizing, in poetry on community, translation and formal spatial inquiry.