Emma Aylor
Emma Aylor is a PhD candidate with a concentration in creative writing. She is the author of Close Red Water, winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize, and her poems have appeared in New England Review, the Yale Review, AGNI, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry Daily, among other journals and anthologies. She grew up in rural Virginia and holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington.
Website: emmaaylor.com
Book
Close Red Water (Barrow Street Press, Oct. 2023)
Awards
Ragdale Foundation Residency, 2024
Petrified Forest National Park Artist-in-Residence Program, 2024
Ralph Angel Poetry Prize, Foundlings Press, 2023
William Bryan Gates Graduate Award in English, TTU, 2023
Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize, 2022
Warren S. Walker Award for Critical Writing, TTU, 2022
Paul Whitfield Horn Fellowship, TTU Women's Club, 2022
Residency Scholarship, The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, 2022
Elsa Nettels Prize for a Beginning Scholar, Edith Wharton Society, 2021
Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets, Shenandoah, 2020
PhD in Creative Writing (Poetry)
Email: eaylor@ttu.edu
Department of English
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Address
P.O. Box 43091 Lubbock, TX 79409-3091 -
Phone
806.742.2501 -
Email
english@ttu.edu