About

Emily Shafer is an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing, Poetry at Brooklyn College and an incoming MFA Candidate in Image Text at Cornell University. She is an Adjunct Lecturer for the City University of New York (CUNY) and Poetry Editor-in-Chief for The Brooklyn Review. She is the author of the chapbook, it's too early for poetry, from Proper Tales Press, and her work appears in numerous online and in-print magazines.

 

Emily has studied under Charles North, Eugene Richie, Petra Hůlová, Mónica de la Torre, LaTasha Diggs, Anselm Berrigan, Tan Lin, and Ben Lerner. She has completed Ugly Duckling Presse's Bookmaking for Writer's Intensive in 2025.

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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, which she has exhibited at the Hamilton Heights Darkroom Spring 2025 Exhibit.​

 

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.​