About the Author

Emilia Phillips is the author of the two poetry collections, Signaletics (2013) and Groundspeed (March 2016) from the University of Akron Press, and three chapbooks including Beneath the Ice Fish Like Souls Look Alike (Bull City Press, 2015). Her poetry appears in Agni, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, U.S. Poets in Mexico, and Vermont Studio Center; the 2013-2014 Emerging Writer Lectureship at Gettysburg College; and the 2012 Poetry Prize from The Journal. She's the Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Centenary College in Hackettstown, NJ.