Emily Pérez

Emily Pérez co-edited the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (University of Georgia Press, 2021) and is the author of the poetry collections What Flies Want (University of Iowa Press, 2022) and House of Sugar, House of Stone (Center for Literary Publishing, 2016), as well as two chapbooks. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury emerging critic, she has published poems in such journals as Cosmonauts Avenue, Copper Nickel, Poetry, Diode, RHINO, and The Guardian. She teaches English and gender studies in Denver, where she lives with her family.