Emily Wilson

Poet Emily Wilson was educated at Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Wilson is the author of four poetry collections: Burnt Mountain (University of Iowa Press, 2025), long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize;The Great Medieval Yellows (Canarium Books, 2015); Micrographia (University of Iowa Press, 2009); and The Keep (University of Iowa Press, 2001). 

The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. she has taught at Colby College, Grinnell College, the University of Montana, and Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She was also the proprietor of Spurwink Press, for which she designed and printed letterpress books.