Emily Pérez

Emily Pérez is the author of What Flies Want (University of Iowa, 2022) winner of the Iowa Prize and finalist for a Colorado Book Award; House of Sugar, House of Stone (Center for Literary Publishing, 2016) and two chapbooks. She co-edited the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (Georgia Press, 2022) also a finalist for a Colorado Book Award. A CantoMundo fellow and Ledbury Critic, her work has appeared in The Guardian, LARB, Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, Fairy Tale Review, and Poetry. She teaches high school in Denver, where she lives with her family.