Emily Wall is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alaska. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry and her poems have been published in journals across the US and Canada. She is the recipient of several artist grants, including a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize a poem of hers was recently installed in an Alaskan State Park as part of the Poems in Place project. She has two full-length poetry collections published with Salmon Poetry: Liveaboard and Freshly Rooted.

Emily lives and writes on a beach in Douglas, Alaska.