Emily Pittinos is a Great Lakes poet and essayist currently teaching in Providence, RI. Pittinos has received a 2022 Literature Fellowship from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, as well as support from Vermont Studio Center, the Alexa Rose Foundation, and Washington University in St. Louis, where she served as the Senior Fellow in Poetry. Her recent work appears, or will soon appear, in Academy of American Poets’ poem-a-day, Bennington Review, New England Review, Poetry Society of America, and elsewhere. She is the author of Animal, Roadkill, Ashes, Gone: Essays (Bull City Press, 2022) and The Last Unkillable Thing (University of Iowa Press, 2021), which was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize and a finalist for a 2022 Midwest Book Award.