Emily Portillo is a queer poet, mother, and lover of snacks and skies. She has been a finalist in the 2025 Peseroff Poetry Prize and Pinch Literary Awards in Poetry, among others. She was runner up for the 2024 Ruth Stone Poetry Prize and the winner of the Peatsmoke Journal's 2025 Summer Editor's Prize. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Rattle Magazine, Crab Creek Review, The Comstock Review, Hunger Mountain, Breakwater Review, and elsewhere.