Emily Pettit


Emily Pettit is an American poet, editor, and publisher from Northampton, Massachusetts. She has authored three books of poetry; two chapbooks, How and What Happened to Limbo, and Goat in the Snow. She was shortlisted for The Believer Poetry award.

Education

She received her MFA in Poetry at University of Iowa and her BA in Contemporary Images at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Career

She teaches poetry at Columbia University, New York, New York. Pettit is an editor for Factory Hollow Press and notnostrums, and publisher of the literary journal jubilat. Goat in the Snow was her first full-length collection of poetry and came out in early 2012. Her second volume of poems, Blue Flame, appeared in 2019 from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her work has been included in Huffington Post, Academy of American Poets, and Vinyl Poetry. She has previously taught and/or lectured at Flying Object, University of Iowa, University of Massachusetts, and Elms College.

Works and publications