Bonnie Jill Emanuel

Poet

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Website:

www.bonniejillemanuel.com/

Author's Bio

Bonnie Jill Emanuel is the author of Glitter City (Cornerstone Press, University of Wisconsin SP, 2024). Her poems and interviews most recently appear in American Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Passages North, Pine Hills Review, and more. She holds an MFA from The City College of New York, where she received the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Creative Writing and the Irwin and Alice Stark Poetry Prize.

Education:

City College of New York MFA

Publications & Prizes

Book:

Glitter City (Cornerstone Press, 2024)

Journals:

American Poetry Review

Cider Press Review

Night Heron Barks

Panoply

Passages North

Pine Hills Review

Ruminate

SWWIM Every Day

What Rough Beast

Prizes won:

Irwin and Alice Stark Poetry Prize in Memory of Raymond Patterson, City College of New York.

Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Creative Writing, City College of New York.

Finalist in the 2020 and 2021 Slapering Hol Press, Swan Scythe Press, and Two Sylvias Press chapbook contests, the 2021 Frost Place Chapbook Fellowship, and the 2022 Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest.

Finalist for the 2021 Off The Grid Prize (GRID BOOKS) for a full-length collection, 2021 Gerald Cable Book Award (SILVERFISH REVIEW PRESS), 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection Award (WORD WORKS), and the 2022 Idaho Prize for Poetry (LOST HORSE PRESS).

"Prayer Down Depot Road" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

"Colors Of A Roadhouse Porch" was nominated for Best Of The Net.

"Still Life With Vincent" was long listed for the 2023 Frontier Poetry Ekphrastic Prize.

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Jewish

Fluent in:

English, Spanish

Born in:

Detroit

Raised in:

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Last update: Oct 28, 2024