Emily Warn

Emily Warn is a poet, essayist, and teacher who most recently served as founding editor of poetryfoundation.org, the award-winning online poetry resource of the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine. Her latest book SHADOW ARCHITECT is her spiritual journey through the Hebrew Alef-Beit. She is the author of four other collections of poetry: THE LEAF PATH, THE NOVICE INSOMNIAC, HIGHWAY SUITE, and THE BOOK OF ESTHER.

Her essays and poems appear widely, including in Tikkun, Poetry, Poetry Daily, BookForum, National Book Critics' Circle, Blackbird, Parabola, The Seattle Times, and The Writers' Almanac. You can read her blog and find out about her workshops at www.emilywarn.com. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and associate professor of creative writing at Lynchburg, she currently divides her time between Twisp and Seattle, Washington.

For National Poetry Month, she'll be blogging at www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet