Emily Van Kley

After receiving her MFA in fiction in 2004, Emily Van Kley quickly switched to writing poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Best New Poets, and Best American Poetry among others. She’s a recipient of the Iowa Review Award, the Florida Review Editor’s Award, and the Loraine Williams Prize from the Georgia Review. Her collection, The Cold and the Rust, received the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and comes out from Persea Press in spring of 2018. Raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she now lives with her partner in Olympia, Washington, where she also works at a cooperative grocery and teaches and performs aerial acrobatics. Find her online at emilyvankley.com