About

Emily Shafer is a current MFA student in Creative Writing, Poetry at Brooklyn College. She works in the publishing industry and is an incoming Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn College. Her first chapbook is forthcoming from Proper Tales Press and her work appears in Union Spring Literary Review, 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, Anselm Berrigan, Tan Lin, and 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, which she has exhibited at the Hamilton Heights Darkroom Spring 2025 Exhibit.

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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.​

 

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.​