Media

• Interview with Speak Easy Cafe - Listen
• Poems on IndieFeed Performance Poetry Broadcast - Listen

Things people say...

“...stunning charisma and a dazzling sense of humor...”
- The OC Weekly  

“Emily Kagan Trenchard is one of the best we have.”
- Taylor Mali, author of "What Teachers Make," "Poems from the Like-
Free Zone," and "Together, As We Were "

"Emily Kagan Trenchard is a necessary stake through poetry's fickle heart. Her words remind us that everything - living or undead - deserves a voice, and a proper ending."
-Rachel McKibbens, author of "Pink Elephants" (Cypher Press) , NYFA Fellow

“Emily is a renaissance spirit... Her poems wrestle with you and everything you previously thought to be true. The lines are muscular, they are tireless and getting better all the time.”
- Roger Bonair-Agard, author of "Tarnish and Masquerade" (Cypher Press)

Bio

Emily Kagan Trenchard’s work fuses poetry and science, the personal and the political, the magical and the natural. Her poems critique and reconfigure traditional notions of femininity, history, religion and the body, drawing on images and stories from both her own life and the mainstream media. Her writing synthesizes the experimental nature of her native California, the discipline and knowledge gained while earning her Master’s of Science in Science Writing from MIT, and the attitude nurtured by her adopted home, New York City.

Emily began writing poetry while at the University of California, Berkeley, where her work was commissioned for an address to the graduating class of 2004. Her work has appeared in publications such as Word Riot, Get Underground, The Shiny Gun and several anthologies of poetry. She also received honorable mention in Rattle’s 2009 Poetry Prize. Emily has been a featured writer and performer at numerous reading series and universities across the country, and was a part of Def Poetry Jam’s seasons 3 and 4.

Though poetry is a large part of her creative life, she makes her living in multi-media science communications, helping the public become fascinated by everything from cholesterol to cosmology. She strongly believes that good ideas shouldn’t suffer because of bad design. Most recently, Emily worked with the filmmaker Paul Devlin on his high-flying astrophysics-adventure documentary, BLAST!

Emily lives in Brooklyn where she is slam master and a co-curator of the renowned louderARTS Project Reading Series. She has potty mouth and a thing for red lipstick. She’s expecting her first child this December.

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