Emily Blair
poet | appalachian | professor
SELECT CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"The best ham in Louisville's..." in Flypaper Lit
Two Poems in Hobart
"Love Poem: For a Super Blood Wolf Moon Over the Mountains and Also A Newly Built Apartment Complex in Asheville" in Impossible Archetype
"Plumbing" in Contrary Magazine
"Love Poem: For the Summer I Was 17" in Riggwelter Press
"I Was Told the Risks and Still" in Barren Magazine
Two Poems in Pidgeonholes
Five Poems in Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art
BIO
Emily Blair is an Appalachian poet, blue-collar scholar, and university professor living in North Carolina. Originally from Fort Chiswell, Virginia, she called Blacksburg, VA, and Louisville, KY, home before settling in the Tarheel State.
Themes for her creative writing include queer identity and Appalachia.
Her academic work has largely focused on queer Appalachian and Southern literature, and she is currently working on projects surrounding teaching writing.
Her resume can be viewed here.
CONTACT
For readings and events, interviews, and editorial queries, please contact Emily by email (blair.emilyc@gmail.com).