Emily Tuszynska lives in Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. Her collection of poems about the upheaval of early motherhood, Surfacing (Grayson Books, 2024), was the winner of the Grayson Books poetry award. Her poems can be found in EcoTheo Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, and many other publications. Recognitions include a Pushcart Prize special mention, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and PRISM International’s Earle Birney award. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in poetry from the Sewanee Writer’s Conference and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Parent Residency from Mineral School as well as fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a residency from the Eastern Frontier Educational Foundation. In 2020 she was the artist-in-residence at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park.