About
Emily Perkovich is from the Chicago-land area. She is the Editor in Chief of Querencia Press, an art evaluator with Persephone’s Daughter, and on the Women in Leadership Advisory Board with Valparaiso University. Her work strives to erase the stigma surrounding trauma victims and their responses. Her piece This is Performance-Art was a finalist for the 50th New Millennium Writings Award and she is a 2021 Best of the Net nominee. She is previously published with Harness Magazine, Coffin Bell Journal, and Awakened Voices among others. She is the author of the poetry collections Godshots Wanted: Apply Within (Sunday Mornings at the River) & The Number 12 Looks Just Like You (Finishing Line Press), baby, sweetheart, honey (Alien Buddha Press) as well as the novella Swallow. You can find more of her work on IG @undermeyou
Featured Work
baby, sweetheart, honey
In unapologetic screams and whispers, Emily Perkovich in baby, sweetheart, honey delivers a provocative poetic memoir where a woman must maneuver through her own adolescent trauma so long unnamed, and into womanhood where desecration of the female body serves as mentor, traitor, and awakening. In the retellings of the violations committed against the female body, Perkovich achieves something greater than forgiveness—not in the saccharine way of forgetting or even redemption—but that there is a malleability, evolving adaptability, and unflinching epiphany of power that women ultimately possess even after what they suffer, tolerate, and defy time and time again. Perkovich spares no one from the uncensored weight of her story, which is not told in traditional linear narrative, but shatters long-held silences through a maze of a woman who fights her way to not just survive but ultimately live.
—Elsa Valmidiano, author of We Are No Longer Babaylan
Other Works
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Swallow
2022
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Godshots Wanted: Apply Within
2021
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Expulsion
2020
