Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson has published three books of poems: Pharaoh, Pharaoh (LSU, 1997); Pinion, An Elegy (LSU, 2002); and Late Wife (LSU, 2005), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. She was the 2005 Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress and is an associate professor at Mary Washington College.

Claudia Emerson’s website is at umw.edu/featuredfaculty/emerson.

Published in VQR

• The Medical Venus, Fall 2008
• The Polio Vaccine, Chatham, Virginia, 1964, Fall 2008
• Spring Ice Storm, Fall 2008
• Piano Fire, Summer 2006
• Anorexic, Farmers' Market, Summer 2006