Emily Skillings
b'Emily Skillings is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not (The Song Cave, 2017), which Publishers Weekly called a \\u201cfabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut.\\u201d Her poems can be found in Poetry, Harper\\u2019s, Boston Review, Granta, Hyperallergic, jubilat, and the Brooklyn Rail.\\n\\nSkillings is the editor of Parallel Movement of the Hands: Five Unfinished Longer Works by John Ashbery, which was published by Ecco/HarperCollins in 2021. She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series. Skillings received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow in 2017. She currently teaches creative writing at Yale, NYU, and Columbia and lives in Brooklyn.'