UMN Gesell Writing Fellow
Poetry
Minneapolis, MN
July 2007, two weeks
Emily Bright is a weekend host for MPR News, where she also produces Art Hounds and Ask a Bookseller. She holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota and a BA from Williams College. She is the author of two poetry collections, “Fierce Delight: Poems of Early Motherhood” (North Star Press, 2025) and “This Ground Beneath Our Feet” (forthcoming in April 2026 from Holy Cow! Press). She lives in the Twin Cities with her family.
Ms. Bright was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Center in the summer of 2007 while a grad student at the U of MN.