Emily Skaja

Emily Skaja is the author of BRUTE (Graywolf 2019), winner of the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her work appears in American Poetry ReviewThe Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Memphis.

  • It’s the stage of grief where [I become a transparent eyeball]

    I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all.