Emma De Lisle is an associate editor of Peripheries and co-Editor-in-Chief of Mark. Last year, she served as Poetry Chair for the 2025 Massachusetts Book Awards. She studies religion and literature at Harvard and lives with her husband in Western Massachusetts. 
POETRY
Changes Review (forthcoming)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 32”
“Psalm 51”

Tupelo Press, The Writes of Spring anthology (forthcoming 2027)
“Spoke”

West Branch (forthcoming)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 38”
“Psalm 102”
“Psalm 130”

The Massachusetts Review (forthcoming)
“The First Spring”

Poetry Nightly via Kismet (December 2025)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 6”

Lana Turner (Winter 2025)
“Feeder”

Kismet (November 2025)
[with Sam Bailey and Talin Tahajian]
“Psalm 6”
[nominated for Deep Vellum’s Best Translation series]

Washington Square Review (Fall 2025)
“On a Porch at 6PM Outside Laramie, WY”
“Two Step”
“Rhododendrons”
“Larissa the Real Girl”
“No Lamb, Larissa”

32 Poems (Summer 2025)
“Day 2”

New Ohio Review (Summer 2025)
Miracle-Proof”

House House  (Spring 2025)
“Okay Angel”

The Missouri Review (Spring 2025)
Orioles”

West Branch (Spring 2025)
Make Me the Wound to You”
[nominated for Orison’s Best Spiritual Literature]

EcoTheo Review (Winter 2024)
“Sinks Canyon”

The Adroit Journal (Fall 2024)
“Reverse Economy”

The Boiler (Fall 2024)
Eating the Thing Like Joy”

Image (Summer 2024)
For the Circumcision of a Small City”
[reviewed at Art and Theology]

North American Review (Summer 2024)
Trouble is a Tall Man”

Denver Quarterly (Spring 2024)
“Monotheism”
“We Would Tell You in Every Tongue”

Colorado Review (Spring 2023)
Attribute Generator
God Throws Me”

Conjunctions (Fall 2021)
“After the Feast”
“The One and the Many”
“Last Light in the Garden”
“Self-Portrait As I’m Admitting It”
“Saturday”

Frontier Poetry (Fall 2021)
“Ekphrastic For Missing Bosch Figure”

Colorado Review (Spring 2020)
Poem Written Backwards”

The Harvard Advocate: The Women’s Issue (Spring 2019)
Poem Wet Only to the Knees”
OTHER WRITING
Mark 2 (December 2025)
[with Sam Bailey]
“A Conversation with Kimberly Johnson on Mark 2”

Washington Square Review (Fall 2025)
Interviewed by Hala Alyan

Mark 1 (December 2024)
[with Sam Bailey]
“A Conversation with Christian Wiman on Mark 1”

Political Theology​ (August 2024)
​“‘I Speak With a Throb’: Reading Adélia Prado’s Use of Figure in Response to Niklaus Largier”

Peripheries (Spring 2024)
[with Sam Bailey]
“Anti-Letters Folio,” Editors’ Foreword
AWARDS
SINGLE POEM PRIZES

2025 Washington Square Review New Voices Award (first-place winner)
2025 Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize (shortlist)
2025 New Ohio Review Ellis Prize (finalist)
2025 Disquiet Prize (shortlist)
2025 Sewanee Review Prize in Poetry (finalist)
2023 Los Angeles Review Award in Poetry (finalist)
2021 Frontier Poetry OPEN Prize (finalist)

MANUSCRIPT PRIZES

2025 Berkshire Prize (semifinalist)
2025 Alice James Award (finalist)
2024 X.J. Kennedy Prize (finalist)
2023 Pamet River Prize (finalist)
RESIDENCIES
2018 Orein Arts Monastery Arts Residency, Mount Savior Monastery (Elmira, NY)
2018 Catena Artistorum CatenArt Residency (Lviv, Ukraine)