Emily R. Hunt

Emily Hunt is the author of Stranger, published by The Song Cave in March 2024, named one of The Best Books of 2024 by Vulture.

Claudia Rankine selected an early manuscript version of “Stranger” as an honorable mention in the 2020 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry competition.

Hunt’s other works include the poetry collection Dark Green, named a “standout debut” by Publishers Weekly and a "Must-Read Poetry Debut" by Lit Hub; Cousins (Cold Cube Press), a book of photographs; Company (The Song Cave), a poetry chapbook; and This Always Happens (Brave Men Press), a book of drawings and text.

Her honors include the 2012 Iowa Review Poetry Prize (selected by Timothy Donnelly), the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Poetry, and nominations for Best New Poets. She has been a Visiting Writer at Reed College, UC Santa Cruz, and the University of Richmond.

Hunt’s poems have been published in Folder, PEN Poetry, Hyperallergic, The Iowa Review, Tupelo Quarterly, TYPO, The Volta, Diagram, and the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Now series, among many others.

She has published photo series in numerous publications, including jubilat, No Materialism, Gramma, and Mount Analogue. She has also provided cover art for several poetry collections and exhibited art in group shows at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Carriage Trade, A.P.E. Gallery, Gallery 5, Goldsmith’s College of Art, and elsewhere.

Hunt has taught writing and poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Northeastern University, Westfield State University, Poets House, Brooklyn Poets, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Omnidawn Publishing, and independently. She has also worked for a variety of museums, galleries, and arts nonprofits, including the Poetry Society of America, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, Action Books, the Emily Dickinson Museum, and the Academy of American Poets, among others. She lives in New York.

Instagram: @emilyhunt_poet