Emily Blair
poet | appalachian | professor
SELECT CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS
"The best ham in Louisville's..." in Flypaper Lit
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Two Poems in Hobart
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"Love Poem: For a Super Blood Wolf Moon Over the Mountains and Also A Newly Built Apartment Complex in Asheville" in Impossible Archetype
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"Plumbing" in Contrary Magazine
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"Love Poem: For the Summer I Was 17" in Riggwelter Press
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"I Was Told the Risks and Still" in Barren Magazine
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Two Poems in Pidgeonholes
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Five Poems in Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art
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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.
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Themes for her creative writing include queer identity and Appalachia.
She is currently working on a poetry manuscript about coming out in Kentucky, memory, and grief.
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Her resume can be viewed here.
CONTACT
For readings and events, interviews, and editorial queries, please contact Emily by email (blair.emilyc@gmail.com).