Emily Pérez

Emily Pérez is the author of House of Sugar, House of Stone and the chapbooks Backyard Migration Route and Made and Unmade. She grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, graduated with honors from Stanford University and earned an MFA at the University of Houston. In Houston she served as a poetry editor for Gulf Coast and taught with Writers in the Schools. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Emerging Critic, she has received support from the Washington State Artist Trust; Jack Straw Writers; Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop; Summer Literary Seminars; and the Community of Writers. Her poems have appeared in Cosmonauts Avenue, Copper Nickel, Fairy Tale Review, Poetry, and other journals. Her reviews of poetry and prose have appeared in RHINO, The Boston Review, LARB, The Guardian, and The Rumpus. She works as a high school teacher and dean in Denver where she lives with her family. Find more about her work at www.emilyperez.org.