Emily Schulten

Emily Schulten was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in July 1979. She received both her BA and MA in English from Western Kentucky University and a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University.

Schulten is the author of three books of poetry: Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia (White Pine Press, 2024); The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar (Kelsay Books, 2021); and Rest in Black Haw (New Plains Press, 2009).

Schulten is the recipient of the 2023 White Pine Press Poetry Prize; the 2023 Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize awarded by Raleigh Review; and the 2016 Erskine J. Poetry Prize.

In 2005, Schulten moved to Key West, Florida, where she is a professor of English and creative writing at The College of the Florida Keys and the director of CFK Poetics. In 2024, she was appointed the poet laureate of Key West. In the same year, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.