Emily Patterson is the author of three chapbooks: So Much Tending Remains (2022), To Bend and Braid (2023), and haiku at 5:38 a.m. (2024). Her debut full-length collection, The Birth of Undoing, will be published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2025. Emily’s work has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best Spiritual Literature and appears or is forthcoming in SWWIM, North American Review, Christian Century, Rust & Moth, Stirring, Mom Egg Review, Literary Mama, The Hopper, Wild Roof Journal, Tyger Tyger Magazine, and elsewhere. Emily received her B.A. in English from Ohio Wesleyan University and her M.A. in Education from Ohio State University. She works as a curriculum designer and editor and lives with her family in Columbus, Ohio.