Emily Ferrara     

                 Emily Ferrara in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

                                                                                   Copyright 2007

Biography


Emily Ferrara, the 2006 winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize, has published poems in Worcester Review, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, Family Medicine, Full Circle, Lifeboat, Lynx Eye, and several anthologies. Her poems have received awards from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine in 2005, and from the Worcester County Poetry Association and the New Words, New Voices in 2006. The Alchemy of Grief will be her first full length book. She is Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at University of Massachusetts Medical School, where she teaches creative writing and directs the grants and special projects division for the school’s Office of Medical Education. She earned a BS in Communications from Boston University, and a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Lesley University. Born and raised in Bridgeport, CT, Ferrara resides in Worcester, MA, with her life partner M. Lara Hoke, and her daughter Deva Jasheway.