Adaptations

Adaptations is an exercise in envisioning the worst case scenario and asking, “ What next?” It explores concepts of alienation and survival in a world that’ s largely inhospitable, and what it means to be human once traditional mechanisms of control and safety cease to exist.

Emily Pinkerton lives and writes in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds an MFA from San Francisco State University, and her writing has previously appeared in Pome, ZYZZYVA, Juked, BlazeVOX, Foglifter, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. Emily is the author of two previous chapbooks: Natural Disasters (Hermeneutic Chaos Press, 2016), and Bloom (Alley Cat Press, 2018). Her full-length collection, All Hazards, was recently selected as a finalist for the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Emily has been awarded fellowships and residencies from Winter Tangerine, The Writers Grotto and Alley Cat Books in the USA as well as international artist-in-residence positions from USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway and at GCA in Bern, Switzerland.