Emily Schulten is the author of three poetry collections, including, most recently, The Way a Wound Becomes a Scar (Kelsay Books, December 2021), a 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist, and the forthcoming Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia (White Pine Press), the 2023 White Pines Press Poetry Prize winner. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, Tin House, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She is a professor of English and creative writing at the College of the Florida Keys.