Emily Schulten is the author of three poetry collections, including most recently The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar, a 2023 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist, and the forthcoming Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia, the 2023 White Pine Press Poetry Prize winner, slated for fall 2024. Her poetry and nonfiction appear in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner, among others. Schulten is the Poet Laureate of the City of Key West, where she serves as a Professor of English and creative writing at The College of the Florida Keys.
Originally from Bowling Green, Kentucky, Schulten earned her master’s degree in English from Western Kentucky University and her Ph.D. in creative writing from Georgia State University. She received the 2023 Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize for her nonfiction and poetry, the 2016 Erskine J. Prize for Poetry, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2017. She lives in Key West with her husband and their son.