Emily Kagan Trenchard began writing poetry while at the University of California, Berkeley, where her work was commissioned for an address to the graduating class of 2004. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as Ragazine, Get Underground, The Shiny Gun, The Nervous Breakdown and several anthologies of poetry. She also received honorable mention in Rattle’s 2009 Poetry Prize. Emily has been a featured writer and performer at numerous reading series and universities across the country, and was a part of Def Poetry Jam’s seasons 3 and 4. Though poetry is a large part of her creative life, she has a Master’s degree in Science Writing from MIT and makes her living in multi-media science communications, helping the public become fascinated by everything from cholesterol to cosmology. Emily lives in Brooklyn where she is a co-curator of the renowned louderARTS Project Reading Series.
- Convincing My Father by Emily Kagan Trenchard
