Emma Bolden (photo by Mandy Forhan)

Emma Bolden (photo by Mandy Forhan)

Emma Bolden’s work has been published or is forthcoming in the Greensboro Review, Redivider, Prairie Schooner, the Indiana Review, Copper Nickel, Feminist Studies MARGIE , Verse, Green Mountains Review, Poet Lore, Cimarron Review, 32 PoemsSalamander, and on Linebreak.org.  She is the author of How To Recognize A Lady, published as part of Edge by Edge, the third in Toadlily Press’ Quartet Series; The Mariner’s Wife, published by Finishing Line Press; and The Sad Epistles, available from Dancing Girl Press.  She was the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and was named a finalist for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship by the Poetry Foundation/Poetry magazine.  She was a semi-finalist for the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize and the Perugia Press Prize.  She is a visiting assistant professor of English and creative writing at Georgetown College, where she also serves as poetry editor of The Georgetown Review.  This summer, she’s happy to announce her return to The Center for Gifted Studies at Western Kentucky University’s VAMPY, The Summer Program for Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Youth — this time as an instructor!