Emily Skillings

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Emily Skillings is the author of Tantrums in Air (The Song Cave, 2025) and Fort Not (The Song Cave, 2017) and the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery (Ecco, 2021).

In 2023, Skillings was a recipient of a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. A member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, she teaches creative writing at Columbia University, Yale University, The New School, and New York University.