Emily Pinkerton lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, and her writing has previously appeared in Pome, ZYZZYVA, Juked, BlazeVOX, Foglifter, and Berkeley Poetry Review among others. Emily is the author of three chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), Bloom (Alley Cat Press, 2018) and Adaptations (Nomadic Press, 2018). Her full-length collection, All Hazards, was recently selected as a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from Winter Tangerine, The Writers Grotto and Alley Cat Books in the USA, and from USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. More of Emily's publications can be found at thisisemilypinkerton.tumblr.com, on twitter (@neongolden), or on instagram (@thisisemilypinkerton).