Emily Perkovich
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020
Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2020
Submitted to Contest #176
Emily Perkovich is from the Chicago-land area. She is the Editor in Chief of Querencia Press, an art evaluator with Persephone’s Daughters, and on the Women in Leadership Advisory Board with Valparaiso University. Her work strives to erase the stigma surrounding trauma victims and their responses. Her piece This is Performance-Art was a finalist for the 50th New Millennium Writings Award and she is a 2021 Best of the Net nominee. She is previously published with Harness Magazine, Coffin Bell Journal, and Awakened Voices among others. She is the author of the poetry collections Godshots Wanted: Apply Within (Sunday Mornings at the River), baby, sweetheart, honey (Alien Buddha Press), and the novella Swallow. Her chapbook The Number 12 Looks Just Like You is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. You can find her on IG @undermeyou or on Twitter @emily_perkovich