Emma Bolden is the author of three full-length collections of poetry –
House Is An Enigma (forthcoming from Southeast Missouri State University Press),
medi(t)ations (Noctuary Press, 2016) and
Maleficae (GenPop Books) – and four chapbooks. She received a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A Barthelme Prize and Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize winner, her work has appeared in
The Best American Poetry,
The Best Small Fictions, and
Poetry Daily as well as such journals as the
Mississippi Review,
The Rumpus,
StoryQuarterly,
Prairie Schooner,
New Madrid,
TriQuarterly,
Conduit, the Indiana Review,
Shenandoah, the
Greensboro Review,
Feminist Studies,
Monkeybicycle,
The Journal,
The Pinch, and
Guernica. She currently serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief for
Tupelo Quarterly.
What are you working on?I actually just realized a few weeks ago that I’m apparently deep into two projects: one is a collection of poems about life in the deep, dirty south. The other started out as a series of found poems from true crime shows and has (apparently) developed an examination of the way our culture fetishes the female body in distress, danger, and death.
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