Emily August is an associate professor of literature at Stockton University, where she teaches courses in 19th-century British literature and culture, medical humanities, literatures of crime and detection, and creative writing. Her scholarly research examines literary, clinical, and visual representations of the body, and the role of the sciences in perpetuating violence against the body. Her poems explore domestic violence and intergenerational trauma, investigating how violence is learned and passed down, and how the body records the traumas to which it is subjected. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Humanities Review, and other journals.
