Emily Bowles received a PhD in English and Certificate in Women’s Studies from Emory University in 2004. In her first chapbook, His Journal, My Stella (Finishing Line Press, 2018), she explores or experiences of gendered and sexual silencing in graduate school through the story of the subject of her thesis, Jonathan Swift. In The Satisfactory Nothing of Girls, Bowles by Finishing Line Press revisits Virginia Woolf. She has received the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Triad Award, a Pushcart Prize nomination and an artist residency with the Appleton Public Library.