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