Emilie Menzel

Emilie Menzel is the author of the The Girl Who Became a Rabbit (Hub City Press, 2024), a book-length lyric examining reclaimed narratives of embodiment, gentle hauntings, and fables of the body. Her poetry hybridities have garnered such honors as the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize (selected by Molly McCully Brown), the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Poetry (selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen), and the Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction (selected by Leigh Newman), and feature in such journals as the Bennington Review, Copper Nickel, and The Offing, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and serves as the librarian for The Seventh Wave community and a collections librarian at Duke University. Raised on barefoot Georgia summers, they now live in Durham, North Carolina and online at emiliemenzel.com.