Emily Bludworth de Barrios’s recent 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 appeared in publications such as Harvard Review, Copper Nickel, The Poetry Review, and Oxford Poetry. She received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and also holds degrees from Goldsmiths College and The College of William & Mary. She was raised in Houston, Cairo, and Caracas, and divides her time between Houston, Texas and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
Recent & Current
Read at In the Rose Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Created Memento Mori, an interactive bibliomancy game
Designed a series of poetry cards and printed ephemera
Rich Wife reviewed by Elizabeth Sylvia in Plume
Rich Wife reviewed by Kent Shaw in Kalliope
Rich Wife reviewed by Christopher Crawford in B O D Y
Rich Wife review by Chris Waddington in On the Seawall
Poems in Oxford Poetry
Poems in The Harvard Review
Facilitating a six-week poetry workshop at Inprint, starting September 12th — Six Poetic Modes
Upcoming
Translating Rich Wife into Spanish
Collaborating with composers and musicians to create a performance for Music as Language, Language as Music
Offshoots Poetry Bookclub
Meets the last Sunday of the month at Basket Books & Art
October selection: There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die by Tove Ditlevsen
On the Nightstand
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Read & Listen
Listen to an excerpt from Rich Wife at Iterant
Read an excerpt from The Pelvic Bone at Prelude