About

Emily Shafer completed her B.A. in English Language and Literature and Film and Screen Studies with a concentration in creative writing at Pace University in New York City. She specialized in journalism and poetry and published work in Aphros Magazine and The Pace Press.

 

She is currently working in the publishing industry and is writing and editing her first poetry collection in her free time. She is an incoming M.F.A. student in Poetry at Brooklyn College.

 

Emily has studied under Charles North, Eugene Richie, and Petra Hůlová and is an incoming student of Anselm Berrigan, Ben Lerner and Mónica De La Torre.

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In Pace University's annual writing contest, she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Sarah Willis Prize for poetry in 2024 and 2023, respectively. 

 

When she's not writing or editing she can be found asking to pet people's dogs, watering her plants, or taking and developing photos from her film camera. She lives and works in New York City.​