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Emily Perez

Emily Perez attends high school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is the author of the young adult novel Yesterday She Was Tiffany (Word One Publishing, 2017), and her work has been recognized by the Apprentice Writer and Chattanooga’s Center for the Creative Arts. When she’s not writing, she’s working with her high school’s theater department, serving as the under-secretary-general of her regional model UN conference, and editing for the literary journal Polyphony H.S.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Nov/Dec 2018

Extraterrestre

By Emily Perez

Runner-up 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers   At the age of nine I was catapulted into the stars To land, face down, on an alien planet. A […]