Emily Banks is an MFA candidate at UMD-College Park, where she has taught literature, composition, and creative writing courses. She has a BA in English, with minors in Creative Writing and Women's Studies, from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her poems have appeared in the anthology "What Matters" (Jacar Press, 2013), Mikrokosmos, mojo, Steam Ticket, Crab Creek Review, and West Trade Review, among others. She was named a finalist in the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival's 2015 Poetry Contest, and received the 2012 Robert B. House Memorial Prize in Poetry. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize as well as for the 2013-14 Intro Journals Project competition. She currently lives in Jersey City, NJ.