Emily Skillings

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Emily Skillings is the author of two chapbooks: Backchannel (Poor Claudia) and Linnaeus: The 26 Sexual Practices of Plants (No, Dear/ Small Anchor Press). Her first full-length collection of poetry, Fort Not, will be published by The Song Cave in 2017. Recent poems can be found/are forthcoming in Brooklyn Rail, BOMB,  Hyperallergic, LitHub, jubilat, Pleiades, Phantom Limb_, and Washington Square. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective and event series. Skillings is an MFA candidate at Columbia University and runs the Earshot reading series with Allyson Paty.

Prize anthology mentions

Pushcart (Poetry) 2017

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