Emily Bludworth de Barrios

Emily Bludworth de Barrios’s books include Rich Wife (University of Wisconsin 2025), recipient of the Four Lakes Prize, and Shopping or The End of Time (University of Wisconsin 2022), winner of the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Her poems have recently appeared in publications such as Harvard Review, Copper Nickel, The Poetry Review, and Oxford Poetry. She received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and also holds degrees from Goldsmiths College and The College of William & Mary. She was raised in Houston, Cairo, and Caracas, and now lives in Houston, Texas and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.