A fat, queer, and neurodivergent writer, Emily Lake Hansen (she/her) is a graduate student editor for Beyond Bars and a PhD candidate at Georgia State University where she also serves as the Nonfiction Editor for New South. Emily is the author of the poetry collection Home and Other Duty Stations (Kelsay Books) as well as two chapbooks: The Way the Body Had to Travel (dancing girl press) and Pharaoh’s Daughter Keeps a Diary (forthcoming form Kissing Dynamite Press). Her essays and poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Pleiades, OxMag, So to Speak, Still: A Journal of Literature, Atticus Review, SWWIM, and Up the Staircase Quarterly among others. A recent finalist for the Page Prize in Nonfiction and the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Award, Emily lives in Atlanta with her very loud family and teaches creative writing at Agnes Scott College.

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