Publications
POEMS
Stonecoast Review: "Think of Us" and "Summer Help IV"
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Driftwood Press (print): "County Fair at Night" and accompanying interview
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Artemis Journal (print): "LOOKING FOR AN OLD FRIEND'S VULVA PAINTINGS"
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THE SHORE: "At 2 A.M." and "Root-Bound"
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SAVOR: Poems for the Tongue Anthology, Friendly City Books (print): "Ode to the Fish-Fry"
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The Banyan Review: "Baptism without Breach"
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Arboreal Literary Magazine: "Ghost Apples"
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The Woodward Review: "Self Portrait"
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Zone 3: "When the Sky Opens" and "The Strawberries and Something About Love"
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​Passages North (print): "Sisters"
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Product Magazine: "Meanwhile in the Tree Stand Adjacent to Windmill-80"
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​West Trestle Review: "Bleeding Hearts at Her Feet"
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Cider Press Review: "Water Witching"
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SWWIM Every Day: "He asked if I'd want a daughter"
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Doubleback Review: "Stray Bullet in Dry Season" (reprint - originally published in The American Journal of Poetry)
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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 (print): "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
MAYDAY Magazine: "Motherhood and Mental Illness: On Blue by Erin Wilson" ​
FEATURES
Driftwood 2025 Anthology: Interview with Sara Moore Wagner (print)
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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 currently teaches at the University of Southern Mississippi while pursuing her PhD in creative writing.
Kinney has led community poetry workshops, organized creative writing events, volunteered as a poetry editor for various magazines, worked as an acquisitions intern and marketing freelancer, and as the Director of the 2021 Little Grassy Literary Festival. Currently, she serves as Associate Editor for Mississippi Review. When she's not working, she hangs out with her dogs, hikes with her cohort, and dreams about having another Guinness in Ireland.
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