Emily Oliver

Emily Oliver lives in Minneapolis with her husband, nonfiction writer Dylan Reynolds, and daughter Alma. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has recently appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. She has been supported by a Sicca Grant, the Corson-Browning Poetry Prize, and a 2024 MN State Arts Board grant. Emily teaches in and is the associate director for grants and curriculum for the TREC Prison Education Program at Metro State University, Minnesota’s only BA program for incarcerated students. She is also the contingent faculty vice president of the IFO Faculty Union.