Emily Fernandez

Poetry of Preservation: Other Californias and Beyond, Sunday, May 5, 3:30 – 4:30pm

Emily Fernandez, author of two poetry chapbooks, Pliny and Other Problems (Bamboo Dart Press 2023) and Procession of Martyrs (Finishing Line Press 2018), is an Assistant Professor of English at Pasadena City College where she teaches composition and creative writing. She co-chairs the Sustainability Committee and the Writer-in-Residence Committee at PCC. She was a guest poet on the Life of J.E.M. podcast, The Collective with Gina Duran, and the ZZyZx SundaZe podcast. In 2020, she was a Moving Arts MADlab playwright, and her play Cage and Lung was professionally read online. Her poems and stories have been published in SHIFT, Antithesis Journal, Black Fork Review, Pangyrus, The Dewdrop, Angel City Review, Tiny Seed Journal, LEON Literary Review and others. https://emily-fernandez.weebly.com