Emily Pittinos is a Great Lakes poet and essayist currently teaching in Boise, Idaho. Her debut collection, The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press, April 2021), is a winner of the 2020 Iowa Poetry Prize. A grateful recipient of support from the Alexa Rose Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and Washington University in St. Louis, her recent work can be found in Denver Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, Quarterly West, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere.