Emily Rose Cole (she/her) is the author of Love & a Loaded Gun (Minerva Rising Press, 2017), a chapbook of persona poems in the voices of mythological and historical women. She has received awards from Jabberwock Review, Philadelphia Stories, The Orison Anthology, and the Academy of American Poets. Her poetry has appeared in American Life in Poetry, Best New Poets 2018, Carve, and River Styx, among others. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and is a PhD candidate in poetry and disability studies at the University of Cincinnati, where she is a Taft Fellow.
