Emily Schulten is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia, the 2023 White Pine Press Poetry Prize winner. The recipient of a 2024 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and a 2025-2026 U.S. Fulbright Scholar Award, her poetry and nonfiction appear in the Best American Poetry Series, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Five Points, and Tin House, among others. Schulten is the winner of the 2024 Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, the 2023 Geri Digiorno Multi-Genre Prize, and the 2016 Erskine J. Prize for Poetry. She is a Professor of English and creative writing and the director of CFK Poetics at The College of the Florida Keys and the current Poet Laureate of the City of Key West, where she lives with her husband and their son.