About

Emily Lake Hansen is the author of book Home and Other Duty Stations (Kelsay Books, 2020) and the chapbook The Way the Body Had to Travel (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Nightjar Review, Atticus Review, Stirring: A Literary Collection, The McNeese Review, and Dressing Room Poetry Journal among others. Her work has also been featured in the anthology Till the Tide, a collection of mermaid poetry from Sundress Publications. She received an MFA in creative writing from Georgia College & State University and has served as an English instructor both at GCSU and Georgia Highlands College.

Books

Home and Other Duty Stations - Kelsay Books [Review] - 2020
[Also available on Amazon]

The Way the Body Had To Travel - Dancing Girl Press [Review] - 2014

Individual Poems and Essays

2022

• “Pastoral in Quarantine” Atticus Review. JAN 2022.

2021

• “The Lake’s Only Daughter” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. NOV 2021.
• “In which I forget to check if Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow” 32 Poems. Summer 2021.
• “A Review of Lisa Fay Coutley’s Tether” The Adroit Journal. JUN 2021.
• “Ambivalence” HOBART. FEB 2021.

2020

• “Luxury” HOBART. DEC 2020.
• “Pharaoh’s Daughter Keeps a Diary” Kissing Dynamite. APR 2020.
• “My Therpist Says When There’s Trauma, the Body Keeps the Score” Exhume. FEB 2020.
• “At the Palomino Club” Exhume. FEB 2020.
• “My Therpist Assigns Homework” Exhume. FEB 2020.

2019

• “My male professor asks haven’t women been writing about this for decades already?” Glass: A Journal of Poetry. SEP 2019.
• “Pharaoh’s Daughter Keeps a Diary” Midway Journal. 15 JUL 2019.
• “Rainy Season” Midway Journal. 15 JUL 2019.
• “Pharaoh’s Daughter Keeps a Diary” Rust + Moth. Summer 2019.
• “Baptism” Atticus Review. 19 JUN 2019.
• “Desert Vacation” Atticus Review. 17 APR 2019.

2018

• “Brat in the Garden of Eden” 8 Poems. OCT 2018.
• “Mirage” SWWIM Daily. 30 AUG 2018.
• “Wild” Clementine Unbound. 07 AUG 2018.
• “And my therapist asks what was the primary emotion of your childhood?” [essay] The McNeese Review. Spring 2018.
• “Apologies” and “BRAT.” Nightjar Review. FEB 2018.

2015

• “The Escape Artist.” Stirring: A Literary Collective. Volume 17, Edition 8. 01 AUG 2015.
• “Before Weeki Wachee” and “The Sailor Visits the Mermaid at Weeki Wachee.” Mermaids in the Basement. Sundress Publications. 2015.

2014

• “On ‘My Mother as Penelope’.” [essay] Structure and Style. 03 AUG 2014.

2013

• “The Shape of Our Bodies.” Dressing Room Poetry Journal. Issue 4. 21 JUN 2013.
• “The Self and Others” and “For my son, who is not allergic to eggs.” The Fertile Source. 17 JUN 2013.
• “How to Feed a Sea Lion” (reprint). Agnes Scott The Magazine. 90.1. 31. Print.
• “The Self and Place.” The Camel Saloon. 04 JUN 2013.
• “Dismemberment.” The Camel Saloon. 30 MAY 2013.
• “Postcards from Weeki Wachee,” “How to Feed a Sea Lion,” “Why We Feed Him Tomatoes,” and “Children’s Pool,” Poetry Feature. Atticus Review. 15 JAN 2013.

2012

• “Mother/Mother.” [essay] Agnes Scott Writer’s Festival Magazine. Print.

Awards and Nominations

• Semi-Finalist - Sundress Publications Open Reading 2021.
• Nominee - “Best of the Net 2019” Atticus Review.
• Third Prize - “2019 Atticus Review Poetry Contest”https://atticusreview.org/announcing-the-2019-atticus-review-poetry-contest-winners/ Atticus Review.
• Nominee - “Best of the Net 2018” Nightjar Review.