She received a BA in English from Eastern Connecticut State University while working as a sous chef and preschool teacher. She’s called Boston home for the past four years, where she worked for Pearson Education as an assistant editor. Emily earned her MA in Literary Criticism from Simmons College in 2014. While at Simmons, she studied the relationship between psychoanalysis and narratives that rely on the fluidity of the body. In addition to poetry, Emily is writing a creative cookbook that tells the story of her family’s emigration from Italy and Sicily.