dusk: the air hot and full of dust. brutalist diplomatic buildings aged in that patina, dim as parking garages. our days were long and languid. heat pulled us like a leash, guiding our way to the water; no trees save for paltry saplings straining against the sun to put down roots. EMILY PINKERTON lives and […]
Emily Pinkerton
EMILY PINKERTON lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, and her writing has previously appeared in Pome, ZYZZYVA, Juked, BlazeVOX, Foglifter, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), Bloom (Alley Cat Press, 2018), and Adaptations (Nomadic Press, 2018; Black Lawrence Press, 2023). Her full-length collection, All Hazards, was recently selected as a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Emily has been awarded fellowships and residencies from Winter Tangerine, The Writers Grotto and Alley Cat Books in the USA as well as international artist-in-residence positions from USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway and at GCA in Bern, Switzerland. Find Emily here.
