Emily Tuszynska lives in Virginia, just outside Washington D.C. Her first collection of poetry, Surfacing, (Grayson Books, 2024), was the winner of the 2023 Grayson Books poetry award. Her work can be found in EcoTheo Review, The Georgia Review, Scientific American, The Southern Review, and many other publications.

Other poems on the web by Emily Tuszynska:
Three poems
"Want"
Three poems
"Midnight on Rollins Pond"
Two poems
"Saturday"
"Afternoon Sun at the End of Summer"

Emily Tuszynska's Website.

Emily Tuszynska on Twitter.

About Surfacing:

"Poems as clear and mysterious as cold lake water immerse the reader in the intimate knowing and being known of familial love. What a pleasure to enter and listen to these songs of deep joy, a joy interfused with awareness of fragility and danger, as the poet asks herself, 'How does one live/ with one's whole heart?'"
—Jennifer Atkinson

"To read Surfacing is to be enfolded in the miracles of ordinary life—the birth of an infant, the trees' way of weaving sunlight and shade over the roof of a small house, the smell of sawdust from freshly cut boards, the rising moon as it 'floats through the window/like a slow bubble through syrup.'"
—Jennifer Barber

"Surfacing is a steady, undivided run of poems in the tradition of Anne Bradstreet honoring a life lived—a life that got away from the speaker and welcomed three children—'a wilderness... // a taste I hadn't known / I craved'. These are praise poems familiar with lament that revel in Whitman's miracle of touch, poems of 'spirit, moving restlessly / over the face of the water' and of love, 'a sort of radiating out, an expansion, a dispersal, of the self.'"
—Brad Davis