Emily Ransdell is the author of One Finch Singing, winner of the 2022 Lewis Award for Concrete Wolf Press. Her work has appeared in Rattle, New Letters, Tar River Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Terrain, and elsewhere. Emily divides her time between Camas Washington and the North Oregon Coast, where she teaches poetry classes at the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita.

Other poems on the web by Emily Ransdell:
Two poems
"The Visit"
"Manzanita Beach in January"
"After a Falling Out with a Friend"
"Like a Pilgrim I Enter the Darkness"
Two poems
"This River We're Crossing"

Emily Ransdell's Website.

About One Finch Singing:

"'Sometimes you have to tell a story / your entire life to get it right,' Emily Ransdell says in this exquisite debut volume of poems. Though richly different, the stories—about family, about our fragile planet, about the ways loss takes its inevitable toll— together relate a single human story. When I read good poems, I may learn about a poet's life. When I read great ones, I learn about my own. One Finch Singing is a book of such poems."
—Andrea Hollander

"A terrific book of poems that tells one woman's story but tells it slant, in poems made of both fire and ice."
—Dorianne Laux

"Emily Ransdell's reflections on aging and the rehearsal of life's challenges are both at once witty and deeply affecting for their honesty and beauty. Her deftly crafted lines reveal a poet of fine skill and imaginative power."
—Kwame Dawes

"Her poems about the climate crisis and its effects on wildlife are particularly moving and rich in sensory detail."
—Donna Prinzmetal

"I was swept away by the taut grace of these lyrical narrative poems."
—Lana Hechtman Ayers