Emilia Phillips is the author of the chapbook Strange Meeting (Eureka Press, 2010). Her poetry has appeared in or is forthcoming from AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, The Collagist, Connotations Press: An Online Artifact, Copper Nickel, diode, Ecotone, Green Mountains Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, Indiana Review, Sycamore Review, and Third Coast, among others. She has written reviews in Blackbird, Connecticut River Review, James Dickey Review, The Journal, and Pleiades; and fiction in Hobart. She was a 2011 Mona Van Duyn scholar to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a finalist in the 2011 Copper Nickel Contest in Poetry and the 2011 Wabash Poetry Prize. She is the Levis Fellow for the coordination of the Levis Reading Prize at Virginia Commonwealth University and is an associate literary editor of Blackbird.  

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