Emari DiGiorgio makes a mean arugula quesadilla and has split-boarded the Tasman Glacier. She is Associate Professor of Writing at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, a New Jersey State Poet-in-the-School, and a teaching artist with Teachers & Writers.

In 2012, she was named a Distinguished Teaching Artist by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and received the Governor’s Award in Arts Education.

Her poetry manuscript Bullets in Honey was a finalist for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and the 2010 Tupelo Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Calyx, DIAGRAM, Feminist Studies, Poetry International, and Switched-on Gutenberg. She also is a recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Residency, a New Jersey State Council on the Arts Poetry Fellowship, and the Ellen LaForge Memorial Poetry Prize.

DiGiorgio has taught a monthly creative writing workshop at the South Jersey chapter of Gilda’s Club, a cancer resource center and was featured on the Dodge Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Friday Blog: http://blog.grdodge.org/2012/07/13/poetry-friday-emari-digiorgio-2012-festival-poet/.