About

Emily Shafer is a current MFA student in Poetry at Brooklyn College. She works in the publishing industry and is writing her first poetry collection in her free time. Her first chapbook is forthcoming from Proper Tales Press and her work appears or is forthcoming in Touchstone Journal, The Hyacinth Review, The Academy of American Poets, and others.

 

Emily has studied under Charles North, Eugene Richie, Petra Hůlová, Mónica de la Torre, LaTasha Diggs, and Anselm Berrigan. She is an incoming student of Ben Lerner.

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Originally a fiction writer, Emily began taking an interest in the poetics of music after high school, prompting her creative switch to poetry. She writes experimental poetry and hopes to combine it with her love of film photography.

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At Pace University in New York City, she worked as an editor for two publications and is currently on the editorial staff for The Brooklyn Review.​

 

When she's not writing or editing she can be found asking to pet people's dogs, watering her plants, planning her next trip, or taking and developing film photographs. Born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., she lives and works in New York City.​