Originally from Austin, Texas, Emma Hine received a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared in 32 Poems, Arts & Letters, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Mississippi Review, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, The Offing, Painted Bride Quarterly, and The Southern Review. In addition to the 2019 Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, she won the 2014 Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry.