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Emily Skaja

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Illinois, The United States

Website

https://emilyskaja.net/

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Genre

Poetry

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Emily Skaja was born and raised in rural Illinois. She holds an MFA from Purdue University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati. Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, FIELD, and Gulf Coast, among other journals. She is the winner of the Gulf Coast Poetry Prize, an AWP Intro Journals Award, and an Academy of American Poets college prize. She lives in Memphis.

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Average rating: 3.98 · 2,401 ratings · 377 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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“What is this impulse in me to worship & crucify
anyone who leaves me—”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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“If ghost, if whore, if virgin—same origin story:

because X was a face too lovely, Y was a corpse in the lake.”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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“How many implements of shame should I hold against

myself?”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

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