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Emily Wall is a professor of English at the University of Alaska. She holds an MFA in poetry, and her poems have been published in journals across the US and Canada, most recently in Prairie Schooner and Alaska Quarterly Review. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and her book, Flame, won the Minerva Rising chapbook prize. Her poem “This Forest” was chosen to be placed in Totem Bight State Park in Ketchikan, Alaska. She has published three books of poetry: Flame, Liveaboard, and Freshly Rooted. Emily lives on Douglas Island in Alaska, and she can be found online at www.emily-wall.com.
"""In a world where we count deaths in headlines—from violence, fever, war—you have found your way to this book of birth stories—spells of beginning, woman power beyond any man’s heroics, the long wait, severe endurance, and the first clean breath. Gleaned from the poet’s own journey, from stories offered by all directions, from paintings, from ancient lore, the tiny percussion of the fetal heart, and the moon’s persistent hints, these poems will enchant, frighten, and deepen you. Reading, you will be born again and again by the oldest drama we know. Turn from the brittle news and behold our deeper psalms."" —Kim Stafford, Poet Laureate of Oregon, author of Singer Come from Afar ""Emily Wall has captured the joy, terror, love, and all the messy mystery of childbirth, as well as those first daunting moments of parenthood. I love these poems not just because they are true, but because they are real.""—Heather Lende, author of If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name ""[Wall's poems are] developed from the stories of new mothers, experienced mothers, grandmothers, lesbian mothers, a foster mother, doctors, a woman who miscarried, a woman unable to conceive who found other ways of mothering, biblical mothers, and even a woman in a painting. They capture the range of emotions — from fear, pain and heartbreak to hope, gratitude and tremendous joy."" —Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News"
