Emily Rosko

Rosko received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Purdue University where she studied with Marianne Boruch and Donald Platt. She earned her M.F.A at Cornell University under the mentorship of Alice Fulton, Ken McClane, Phyllis Janowitz, and Deborah Tall. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing working with Scott Cairns, Lynne McMahon, and Sherod Santos at the University of Missouri.^{[citation needed]}

She taught previously as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University, and she is now Associate Professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.^{[citation needed]}

Her first book Raw Goods Inventory won the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and her second book Prop Rockery was chosen by Natasha Saje for the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize.^{[citation needed]} Her poems have appeared in New Orleans Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, New American Writing, The Denver Quarterly, and West Branch.^[1] Rosko is the poetry editor for Crazyhorse.^[4]

• Akron Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, University of Akron Press, 2011.^{[citation needed]}
• Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, Shenandoah, Washington and Lee University, 2007.^[1]
• Iowa Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, The University of Iowa Press, 2005.^{[citation needed]}
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2004, 2006, 2011, and 2013.^{[citation needed]}
• AWP Intro Journals Project Award, 2002.^{[citation needed]}

• Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University,^[1] 2003–2005.
• Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, Poetry,^[1] 2002.
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education,^[1] 2001–2003.