Emily Pérez

Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want (University of Iowa Press, 2022), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. She co-edited the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (University of Georgia Press, 2022). Her poems and criticism have appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Copper Nickel, Poetry, The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, and RHINO. She teaches English and gender studies in Denver, where she lives with her family.

Emily Pérez