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Emma Hine is the author of the debut poetry collection Stay Safe, which received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and was published by Sarabande Books in January 2021. Stay Safe was a finalist for the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters and the Reading the West Book Award in Poetry. Poems from this collection have appeared in The Paris Review, The Southern Review, and the Poetry Foundation's Poem-of-the-Day series, among other publications, as well as on the podcast The Slowdown. Her essays have also been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Guernica Magazine, and Poets & Writers.
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Currently a freelance writer and communications consultant, as well as a publicist with the publicity project Luna Boeken, she has previously served as the communications director at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses and the associate content & education editor at the Academy of American Poets. Hine received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from New York University, where she was a Starworks Fellow and the layout editor of Washington Square Review. She also holds a BA in English from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the recipient of a 2024 grant from New Mexico Writers.​
She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband, Steve Potter.