About

Emily Stoddard (she/her) is a writer with work in the Kenyon Review, Belt Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. Her craft essays appear in Writer’s Digest, Far Villages (Black Lawrence Press), and Door Flung Open: Essays on Writing and ADHD (forthcoming, University of Chicago Press).

Her debut poetry book, Divination with a Human Heart Attached, was released by Game Over Books in 2023. She is a past recipient of the Developmental Editing Fellowship in creative nonfiction from the Kenyon Review. She is at work on a book-length prose project, parts of which were a finalist for the 2022 Iowa Review Award in nonfiction.

Emily shares in creative practice through various projects, such Surfacing, a book of closing practices for writers. She is also the creator of the Poetry Bulletin, a newsletter and resource for poets that aims to make publishing more accessible. The project now reaches over 4,500 writers and has redistributed over $10,000 to help poets cover submission fees for their books.

She lives in northern Michigan, where Lake Michigan is her favorite collaborator.

Featured Work

Surfacing: Closing Practices for Creative Writers

2024
A book cover with a photo of Lake Michigan ripples in the background and the word "surfacing" in white text. The subtitle is white text on a purple backround and reads: closing practices for creative writers

A practice and a book of 70 exercises for closing out your writing time and getting stronger feedback from your process. Surfacing is for an underappreciated threshold: the moment when you leave the page, close the notebook, exit the screen, or put down the pen. So much attention is paid to getting into the creative act... this is a book and a practice that imagines how generative the other side of the process can be.

Other Works

  • Divination with a Human Heart Attached

    2023

Awards and Recognition

  • The Kenyon Review: Developmental Editing Fellowship in nonfiction (2021)