Bonnie Jill Emanuel is the author of the full-length poetry collection, Glitter City (Cornerstone, 2024). Her poems and interviews appear most recently in American Poetry Review, Rhino, Colorado Review, Pine Hills Review, and other publications.
Emanuel holds a BA in Creative Writing & Foreign Languages from University of Michigan's Residential College, and an MFA from The City College of New York, where she received the Jerome Lowell DeJur Award in Creative Writing and the Irwin and Alice Stark Poetry Prize. She was named a finalist in the Frontier Poetry 2024 Ekphrastic Contest and for the RHINO 2025 Founders Prize for poems from her newest body of work.
A former clothing & design executive, Emanuel has also taught poetry to children & is a longtime poetry previewer for Bellevue Literary Review. Born in Detroit, she lives in New York.
Contact: bonniejemanuel@yahoo.com
