Emily Schulten is the author of three poetry collections, 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 and the winner of the 2024 Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, the 2023 Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize, and the 2016 Erskine J. Prize for Poetry. She is also the recipient of the 2025–26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Award in Literature and Creative Writing.
Schulten is a professor of English and creative writing and the Director of CFK Poetics at the College of the Florida Keys and the 2024-2026 Poet Laureate of the City of Key West, where she lives with her husband and their son.
selected bibliography
Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia (2024)
The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar (2021)
Rest in Black Haw (2009)
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