Emily Abendroth (she/they) is a poet, activist, water-lover, bicycle enthusiast, and holder of many rotating curiosities living in Philadelphia, PA. She taught literature and creative writing as an adjunct professor for almost two decades, and is currently the Program Manager for Philly Climate Works.
In her writing/artistic practice, she often utilizes documentary poetic strategies to investigate state regimes of force and power, as well as individual and collective resistance strategies.
Her newest book Sousveillance Pageant (which coasts restlessly between poetry, novel, and research essay) was published by Radiator Press in Spring 2021. She is also the author of the poetry collection ]Exclosures[ and The Instead, a book-length collaborative conversation with fiction writer Miranda Mellis. She has released chapbooks with Albion Press, Belladonna, Little Red Leaves, TapRoot Editions, and Horse Less Press.
Emily has been awarded writing residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and was named a 2013 Pew Fellow in Poetry. She is a founding member of the Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration, as well as LifeLines: Voices Against the Other Death Penalty Project. For ten years, she directed Address This! – an education and empowerment project that provides innovative, social justice correspondence courses to individuals incarcerated in Pennsylvania.
Reach her at e.e.abendroth at gmail dot com.