Emily Mae Stokes

Stokes received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College (2013). Her work has appeared in Nimrod International Journal, Sweet Tree Review, Tupelo Quarterly, SLICE Magazine, PANK, and The Westchester Review. She currently lives, teaches, and writes in Philadelphia where her first full-length manuscript is crashing on the couch and looking for a small press to call its home.

 

 

Notables:

 

• "Love in the Age of Object Permanence" nominated for 2017 Best of the Net Anthology

• January 2017 Featured Poet of the Month by Yes, Poetry

• Artist-in-Residence at I-Park Foundation, CT (2015)

• "What Happens in the End" nominated for the 2014 Pushcart Prizes

• Featured Reader at the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival (2013)

• Short collection featured in Embark anthology by Toadlily Press (2012)