Emily Brandt(she/they)

Emily Brandt (she/they) is a poet, somatic coach, and facilitator with decades of experience writing, teaching, and supporting creative community. She’s the author of Falsehood, a co-founding editor of No, Dear, curator of the LINEAGE series at Wendy’s Subway, and member of Temp.Files, a video art cooperative and digital residency. She aims to cultivate community, creativity, mindfulness and authenticity across contexts - work that began by advocating for sexual assault survivors, continued through 20 years teaching and coaching in the NYC Department of Education, and extends across many other teaching contexts (New York University, The Poetry Society of America, Hawthornden Foundation Brooklyn, Bowery Poetry Club, Wendy’s Subway, Bronx Botanical Garden, O, Miami and more), including in her own coaching work and writing workshops. She earned a BA in Psychology, Gender Studies, and English from Boston University, an MS Ed from Pace University, and an MFA in Poetry from New York University, where she facilitated the Veterans Writing Workshop. She’s been in residence at Saltonstall and Elsewhere, an Emerging Poets Fellow at Poets House, served previously on the Board of Directors for Poetry Well, and currently for Powerhouse. Her poetry, and occasional prose and interdisciplinary work, appears periodically in journals, anthologies, and digital platforms. Of Sicilian, Polish & Ukrainian descent, she’s based in New York, between Brooklyn (Lenape) and Speonk (Shinnecock).