Emily Rosko (born 1979) is an American poet and is on the faculty of the

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. She is the author of ''Raw Goods Inventory'' (2006) and ''Prop Rockery'' (2012) poetry collections, both of which have won awards.

Career

Rosko received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from

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where she studied with Marianne Boruch and Donald Platt. She earned her M.F.A at

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under the mentorship of

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, Ken McClane, Phyllis Janowitz, and

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. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing working with

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, Lynne McMahon, and Sherod Santos at the

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. She taught previously as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Cornell University, and she is now Associate Professor at the

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. Her first book ''Raw Goods Inventory'' won the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and her second book ''Prop Rockery'' was chosen by Natasha Saje for the 2011 Akron Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in ''

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,'' and ''West Branch''. Rosko is the poetry editor for ''Crazyhorse''.

Awards and fellowships

National prizes

* Akron Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, University of Akron Press, 2011. * Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, '' Shenandoah'',

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, 2007. * Iowa Poetry Prize for a book-length collection, The University of Iowa Press, 2005. * Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2004, 2006, 2011, and 2013. * AWP Intro Journals Project Award, 2002.

Fellowships

* Wallace Stegner Writing Fellowship in Poetry, Stanford University, 2003–2005. *

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Poetry Fellowship, ''Poetry'', 2002. * Jacob K. Javits Fellowship,

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, 2001–2003.

Bibliography

Books

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Edited collections

Essays

* "The Activated Voice." ''The Working Poet'' ''II: Fifty Writing Exercises and a Poetry Anthology''. Ed. Scott Minar. DuBoos, PA: Mammoth Books (2014). 109-16. Print. * "Recovery Project: On ''Visiting Rites'' by Phyllis Janowitz." ''Octopus Magazine'' 16. n. pg. Web. 1 Jan. 2014. * "Mapping the Line." ''A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line''. Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee, eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (2011). 24-33. * "The Complaint." ''Poets on Teaching''. Joshua Marie Wilkinson, ed. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (Fall 2010). 135-37.