About

Emily Shafer is an MFA Candidate in Image Text at Cornell University, holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Brooklyn College, and is an Adjunct Lecturer for the City University of New York (CUNY). She is the author of the chapbooks, it's too early for poetry (Proper Tales Press) and I found looking (above/ground press), and work in poets.org, The Brooklyn Review, periodicities, and more.

 

Emily has studied under Anselm Berrigan, Matthew Connors, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Petra Hůlová, Ben Lerner, Tan Lin, Nicholas Muellner, Charles North, Eugene Richie, Ben Rivers, Catherine Taylor, Mónica de la Torre, and Carmen Winant.

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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 with a focus on observing external and internal stimuli and hopes to combine it with her love of film photography.​

 

Aside from writing, she can be found asking to pet people's dogs, watering her plants, or taking and developing film photographs. Born and raised in Rochester, N.Y., she lives and works in New York City.​

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