Emma Bolden

Emma Bolden’s fourth poetry collection, God Elegy, is forthcoming from BOA Editions in the spring of 2028. Her debut memoir, The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis, was published by Soft Skull Press in 2022. She is the also the author of House Is An Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. Her poetry and prose has appeared in such journals as Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, the New England Review, The Seneca Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Shenandoah. Bolden has been featured on Poetry Daily and on Verse Daily, and her work was chosen for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2015, Best American Poetry 2015, and The Norton Introduction to Literature (13th Edition). She was the recipient of a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2019 Literary Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Bolden currently serves as an editor of the Screen Door Review.

Emma Bolden can be reached by e-mail at emmaboldenwrites [at] gmail [dot] com or through the form below.