This piece is part of our Fall 2019 print issue.
Emma Bolden is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: House Is An Enigma (Southeast Missouri State University Press), medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press) and Maleficae (GenPop Books)—and four chapbooks. She received a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A Barthelme Prize and Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize winner, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Best Small Fictions, and Poetry Daily as well as such journals as the Mississippi Review, The Rumpus, StoryQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, the Indiana Review, Shenandoah, and Guernica. She currently serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Quarterly.
