Emily Rosko was born in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in the Midwest. She participated in the Bucknell Younger Poets Seminar, and after earning a BA from Purdue, she spent a summer teaching English to Russian students in Siberia. While completing a MFA at Cornell, she was a Javits Fellow and a recipient of the Robert Chasen Poetry Prize, the AWP Intro. Journals Award, and a National Society of Arts & Letters Award. She was also awarded the 2002 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and currently, she’s a Stegner Fellow at Stanford. Her poems have been included in The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Florida Review, Hubbub, Quarterly West, Pleiades, Sycamore Review, among others. Emily often says her work is “all over the place,” meaning she enjoys writing poems that push voice and form rather than poems that stick with the same formula. You can check out two other poems at: www.versedaily.org/aboutemilyroskoqw.shtml and www.bpj.org/roskorawgoods.htm.