Emily Rosko

Professor and Director of Undergraduate Creative Writing

Emily Rosko is the author of four poetry collections: Thereafter; Weather Inventions; Prop Rockery, awarded the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize, and Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. She is co-editor of A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line and an editor for swamp pink.  A former Wallace Stegner Writing Fellow at Stanford University, she also is a past recipient of Poetry magazine’s Ruth Lilly Fellowship and a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship. She was awarded the College's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2026.

Education

Ph.D., English and Creative Writing, University of Missouri

M.F.A., Poetry, Cornell University

B.A., English and Creative Writing with a minor in Philosophy, Purdue University

Research Interests

• Poetry Writing
• English language poetry
• The history of the lyric
• Poetics and genre theory
• Shakespeare
• Nature/science writing

Courses Taught

FYE 123: "Shakespeare on Screen"

ENGL 220: Poetry Writing I

ENGL 339: Advanced Creative Writing: “Writing About Travel, Place, & Art”

ENGL 373: Reading for Writers: “Contemporary Myths & Tales”

ENGL 375: Special Topics in Creative Writing: “Poetic Selves: Voice & Identity in the Lyric”

ENGL 375: Special Topics in Creative Writing: “Ekphrastic Poetry”

ENGL 377: Poetry Writing II

ENGL 402: Advanced Poetry Workshop

ENGL 564: MFA Workshop in Poetry

ENGL 566: Elements of Craft & Form in Poetry

ENGL 568: Reading for Writers

Publications

Books:

Thereafter. University of Akron Press (forthcoming April 2027).

Weather Inventions. University of Akron Press, 2018.

Prop Rockery. University of Akron Press, 2012.

A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line. Coedited and introduced with Anton Vander Zee. University of Iowa Press, 2011.

Raw Goods Inventory. University of Iowa Press, 2006.

Recent Poems:

“Longtime.” Shenandoah. (forthcoming).

“Swindler” and “The Continual.” Tar River Poetry 27 (forthcoming Spring 2027).

“Sestina for Nightfall.” Arkansas International 19 (forthcoming).

“I’m Just Going to Put This Out There” and “Pantoum for the Last Night.” Cimarron Review. (forthcoming). Print.

“Female Pleasure.” Anti-Heroine Chic. n. pg. Web. 18 May 2026.

“Both Side Cannot Each Be True”; “Spring Set Fever”; “The Slip.” 149 Review 2. n. pg. Web. 22 Dec. 2025.

“Limerence Ode”; “Complaint to Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers”; and “Killer Instinct.” The Shore 28. n. pg. Web. 21 Dec. 2025.

“The Angle of Incidence” and “Adult Children.” The Laurel Review 58:1. 16-17. Print.

“A Semi-Green Pasture”; “Smirchmonger”; and “If Your Hands Had Not Been Traitors to Your Speech.” DIAGRAM 25.3. n. pg. Web. 4 Oct. 2025.

“Sunbreak.” Seneca Review 55:1. (Spring 2025). 76-77. Print.

“I Can Be Nice.” South Carolina Review 57:2. (Spring 2025).64-65. Print.

“Tough.” Bellingham Review 90. n. pg. Web. 5 Jun. 2025.

“Set Fiction.” Gavialidae 3 (Spring 2025): 16. Print.

“Of Discord.” The Offing. n. pg. Web. 18 Nov. 2024.

“The Lengths.” Bennington Review 13 (Fall 2024): 366. Print.

“The Drift” and “Lord-Portrait.” New American Writing 42 (2024): 138-39. Print.

“The Discrepancies” and “The Intervening Distance.” Epoch 71:2 (Fall 2024): 313-15. Print.

“Lure & Sentence.” Porlock 1. n. pg. Web. 2 Apr. 2023.

“The Long Winter.” Third Coast 54. (Winter 2023). 43. Print.