About

Emily Lake Hansen (she/her) is a fat, bisexual, and invisibly disabled poet and memoirist and the author of the poetry collection Home and Other Duty Stations (Kelsay Books, 2020) as well as the chapbooks Pharaoh’s Daughter Keeps a Diary (Kissing Dynamite Press, forthcoming) and The Way the Body Had to Travel (Dancing Girl Press, 2014). Her poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, 32 Poems, CALYX, Hobart, So to Speak, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Atticus Review, The Shore, SWWIM, and Up the Staircase Quarterly, among others. She received an MFA in creative writing from Georgia College and is currently a PhD candidate at Georgia State University. A receiptient of the 2022 Longleaf Poetry Fellowship and an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Limp Wrist Glitter Bomb Award, Emily lives in Atlanta where she teaches first-year writng and poetry at Agnes Scott 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

Selected Publications

Poems

• “WOMEN WITHOUT A COUNTRY” Passangers Journal.
• “Paradise” and “Lifeguarding” Pleiades.
• “Bird” ONE Art.
• “Ode to Lizzo” Up the Staircase Quarterly.
• “Concerning the results of your ACE screening” Limp Wrist.
• “If I have a home, it’s been on fire for decades” Poetry Online.
• “Latrophobia (Induced by Internalized Fatphobia) So to Speak.
• “Change of Address” and “The Last Birthday Party” ONE Art.
• “My male professor asks haven’t women been writing about this for decades already?” Glass: A Journal of Poetry.
• “Pastoral in Quarantine” Atticus Review.
• “Try something different this time” Birdcoat Quarterly.
• “Luxury” HOBART.
• “How to explain coronavirus to your children” The Shore.
• “My Therpist Says When There’s Trauma, the Body Keeps the Score” Exhume.
• “Pharaoh’s Daughter Keeps a Diary” Kissing Dynamite.
• “Desert Vacation” Atticus Review.
• “Pharaoh’s Daughter Keeps a Diary” Rust + Moth.
• “Rainy Season” Midway Journal.
• “Mirage” SWWIM.
• “Brat in the Garden of Eden” 8 Poems.
• “The Escape Artist.” Stirring: A Literary Collective.

Essays & Reviews

• “American Pastoral for the 21st Century” Still: The Journal.
• “A History of the Body as Told Through Reality Television” So to Speak.
• “The Lake’s Only Daughter” The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.
• “A Review of Lisa Fay Coutley’s Tether” The Adroit Journal.
• “Ambivalence” HOBART.
• “On ‘My Mother as Penelope’.” Structure and Style.

Awards and Nominations

• Finalist - Spring 2022 Black River Chapbook Competition, Black Lawarance Press
• Finalit - Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award
• Honorable Mention - Limp Wrist Glittler Bomb Award
• Finalist - Page Prize in Creative NonFiction
• Semi-Finalist - Button Poetry Chapbook Contest 2022
• Semi-Finalist - Tomaz Salamun Prize
• Semi-Finalist - Sundress Publications Open Reading 2021.
• Nominee - Georgia Author of the Year Awards 2021
• Nominee - “Best of the Net 2019” Atticus Review.
• Third Prize - “2019 Atticus Review Poetry Contest” Atticus Review.
• Nominee - “Best of the Net 2018” Nightjar Review.