Emma BoldenEmma Bolden is the author of Maleficae (GenPop Books, 2013), a book-length series of poems about the witch trials in early modern Europe, and MEDI(T) ATIONS (Noctuary Press, 2016). She is also the author of four chapbooks of poetry: How o Recognize a Lady (Toadlily Press), The Mariner's Wife (Finishing Line Press), The Sad Epistles (Dancing Girl Press) and This Is Our Hollywood (The Chapbook), and a nonfiction chapbook, Geography V (forthcoming from Winged City Press). Her poetry and prose has appeared in such journals as , and Copper Nickel. Bolden has been featured on Poetry Daily and in Verse Daily's Web Weekly series. She was named a finalist for a Ruth Lily Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation/Poetry magazine and the winner of the 2014 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose from Gulf Coast Magazine, the Spoon River Poetry Review's 2014 Editor's Prize Contest, and the Press 53/Prime Number Magazine 2014 Award for Flash Nonfiction. Her work was chosen for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2015 and Best American Poetry 2015. An Alabama native, Bolden received a BLA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Read More Read Less