Bryce Emley was born and raised in Florida and earned an MFA in Poetry from North Carolina State University. His poems, essays, and fiction appear in The Atlantic, Boston Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere, and he is also the author of the poetry chapbook We Might Never Be This Beautiful Again (Seven Kitchens Press, forthcoming) and the fiction chapbook Smoke and Glass (Folded Word, 2018). A recipient of residencies and scholarships from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, The Glen Workshop, Wesleyan Summer Writers Conference, and the University of Central Florida, Bryce is Poetry Editor of Raleigh Review and works in marketing at the University of New Mexico Press. He lives in Albuquerque, NM with his wife. Read more at bryceemley.com.