Emily Kingery teaches English and writes poetry at a small university in Iowa. Her work appears widely in journals, including prose in Birdcoat Quarterly, CutBank, Eastern Iowa Review, and New South. Recently, she was named first runner-up in the 2020 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest, judged by Dinty W. Moore. She serves on the Board of Directors at the Midwest Writing Center, a non-profit organization that supports writers in the Quad Cities community.
Josephine was shoeless in the pasture before sunrise, the ground so cold she warmed her feet in the steam of cow manure, and when she met a man at market, eye-leveling tomatoes, she said, What lovely apples, and he married her, and she learned how to drive, practiced American sentences, birthed a daughter who covered her ears and hid from… Read more →