Emma Hine

Emma Hine’s debut poetry collection Stay Safe (Sarabande Books, 2021) won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was a finalist for the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry and the Reading the West Book Award in Poetry. Her work has been published in the Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, The Offing, The Paris Review, and The Southern Review, among others, and featured on The Paris Review Podcast and The Slowdown. Hine’s essays have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Guernica, and Poets & Writers.

Hine earned an MFA in creative writing from New York University, where she was a Starworks Fellow and the layout editor of Washington Square Review. She earned a BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis. She serves as the communications director at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). Previously, she had been the associate content and education editor at the Academy of American Poets and a cofounder and cohost of the pandemic reading series Debut Revue. Originally from Austin, Texas, Hine lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.