Emily Van Kley’s collection, The Cold and the Rust, was awarded the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize. Her poetry has also been honored with the Iowa Review Award, the Florida Review Editor's Award, and the Loriane Williams Prize for Poetry from The Georgia Review. You can find her recent work in Prairie Schooner, RADAR, Narrative Magazine, and Best American Poetry 2017, among others. Raised on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she now lives in Olympia, Washington with her partner, where she also teaches and performs aerial acrobatics.
