A poet and essayist from New York City, Emma is the author of the poetry collection The Real World (BlazeVOX Books, 2022) and translator of A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (Plays Inverse, 2018). She has a BA in Russian History & Literature from Harvard, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Drift, The Colorado Review, ZYZZYVA, Fence, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. She’s currently a Teaching Professor in English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
She’s also the co-author of The Complete College Essay Handbook, and works one-on-one with a select group of students on their college application essays each year.
