Emily Skillings is the author of the poetry collection Fort Not (2017), which Publishers Weekly called a 'fabulously eccentric, hypnotic, and hypervigilant debut.' She is a member of the Belladonna* Collaborative, a feminist poetry collective, small press, and event series in Brooklyn. She received her MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she was a Creative Writing Teaching Fellow. Skillings was John Ashbery's assistant from 2010 to 2017.