Bio
Emily Rosko is the author of three poetry collections: Weather Inventions; Prop Rockery, awarded the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize; and Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. She is co-editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line.
Her poems have been published in Agni, Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, The Denver Quarterly, Epoch, Laurel Review, Missouri Review, New American Writing, New Orleans Review, Pleiades, Tupelo Quarterly, and West Branch. Her pedagogical essays on poetic craft have been anthologized in Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook and The Working Poet II.
A former Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University, she is a past recipient of Poetry’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. Her poetry also has received an AWP Intro Journals Award, four Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize awards, and the Porter Fleming Literary Competition Award.
She earned a MFA at Cornell University and a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Missouri.
She previously taught at Cornell as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She is Professor of English at the College of Charleston.
