Emily Rosko
Visiting Assistant Professor
- Degrees
- University of Missouri,
Ph.D. - Cornell University,
M.F.A. - Purdue University,
B.A.
Bio
Emily Rosko joins the Cornell English Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing after having been an instructor at the University of Missouri. A graduate of the M.F.A. program at Cornell with a concentration in poetry, and also a Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow, she received her Ph.D in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri, Columbia. She is the author of Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. Recipient of the Stegner, Ruth Lilly, and Javits fellowships, her work has been published in journals such as Agni, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, and Pleiades.
Research and Teaching Interests
- Creative Writing
- American and British poetry
- History of the Lyric
- Nature Writing
- Shakespeare
Current Projects
- Prop Rockery, poetry collection
- Weather Inventions, poetry collection
- A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, edited collection