Emily Schulten

Emily Schulten is the author of three collections of poems, including Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia, the 2023 White Pine Press Poetry Prize winner, and The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar, a 2023 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist. She is the recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, the winner of the 2024 Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, the 2023 Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize, and the 2016 Erskine J. Prize for Poetry. Schulten is the 2024-26 Poet Laureate of the City of Key West, where she serves as a Professor of English and creative writing and the director of CFK Poetics at The College of the Florida Keys.