Emilie Menzel

 EMILIE MENZEL, poet and librarian:

 

Emilie is the author of the book-length poem The Girl Who Became a Rabbit, forthcoming from Hub City Press (Fall 2024) and winner of the 2023 New Southern Voices Poetry Prize (selected by Molly McCully Brown). Her poetry hybridities have received the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Poetry (selected by Diana Khoi Nguyen) and the Cara Parravani Memorial Award in Fiction (selected by Leigh Newman), been named as finalists for the Grist Pro Forma and Tupelo Press Berkshire Prizes, and been featured in such journals as The Bennington Review, The Offing, and Copper Nickel. Their writing examines reclaimed narratives of embodiment, gentle hauntings, and fables of the body.

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As a librarian, Emilie supports critical librarianship, libraries as active sites of information creation, and librarians as conduits for collaboration and creativity. They work with Duke University's Goodson Law Library as the Collections Management and Strategies Librarian. Additionally, she is the Senior Poetry Editor and Research and Instruction Librarian for The Seventh Wave, as well as the curator of the creative library guide The Gretel. Her library science research explores the information seeking behavior and visual studies engagement of creative writers. 

 

Emilie holds a BA in English from Wellesley College, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and an MSLS from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. She lives in the wooded skirts of Durham, North Carolina.