Publications

POEMS

Cider Press Review: "Water Witching" forthcoming June 2022

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West Trestle Review: "Bleeding Hearts at Her Feet" forthcoming July/August 2022

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Passages North: "Sisters" forthcoming Spring 2023

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SWWIM Every Day: "He asked if I'd want a daughter" 

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The American Journal of Poetry: "Stray Bullet in Dry Season" 

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MacQueen's Quinterly: "The muck ditch"

      *Nominated for 2022 Best Short Fictions

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The Oakland Arts Review: "To the Red Sky" and "All Was Swept Away"

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Runestone: "An Evening at Inch Strand Beach Just Outside Dingle, Ireland"

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The Mochila Review: "The Men Who Hold Her" and "This is How We Love"

BOOK REVIEWS

The Inflectionist Review: Review of Kelly Gray's My Fingers are Whales and other stories of Cetology 

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MAYDAY Magazine: Review of Barbara Schwartz and Krista Leahy's Nothing But Light (forthcoming)

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Crab Orchard Review Book Reviews (forthcoming)

FEATURES

Christal Ann Rice Cooper Website: #360 Backstory of the Poem "Beyond the Field"

"Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before."  -Audre Lorde

About

Emilee Kinney hails from the small farm-town of Kenockee, Michigan, near one of the Great Lakes: Lake Huron. She received her BA in Creative Writing and History from Albion College in Albion, Michigan and her MFA in poetry at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is currently pursuing her PhD in creative writing at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Kinney has been active in the literary community as the lead poetry editor for MAYDAY Magazine, acquisitions intern for SIU Press, editorial assistant for the 2021 Crab Orchard Review Book Review Supplement, Director of the 2021 Little Grassy Literary Festival, and former Co-Editor-in-Chief and poetry editor for The Albion Review. When she's not working, she hangs out with her dogs, hikes with her cohort, and dreams about having another Guinness in Ireland. 

CONTACT

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