Lynn Emanuel is the author of five books of poetry, includingThe Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected (Pitt Poetry Series, 2015), which received the Lenore Marshall Award from The Academy of American Poets. Her most recent book, Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing, was published by the Pitt Poetry Series in 2023. (updated 5/2024)

Read Emanuel’s essay, “The Mother,” in AGNI’s The Writing Lives of Roe v. Wade.