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Emilia Phillips
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Poet. 5 books @uakronpress.bsky.social. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Prof @mfagreensboro.bsky.social. #OCD. #hEDS. #Trans #Nonbinary. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
We don’t talk enough about nonbinary transition. It’s been about a month since I’ve been on low-dose T, & I feel SO good on it. I told my partner that I feel better than I have since before puberty.
February 14, 2026 at 2:22 PM
I’ve been working SO much. Trying to find moments to just rest & so, this morning in bed with my coffee, I am starting KIN: THE FUTURE OF FAMILY by Sophie Lucido Johnson.
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Big head.
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Bring back mobile libraries!
January 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
My wild Saturday night, with Bo He Moon’s Birthstones in the Province of Mercy (@milkweededitions.bsky.social, 2026)!
January 11, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Are you a cat lover who has the rare ability to charm a difficult cat who has a history of hiding, hissing, and swatting/scratching?

As I prepare to move my mother into an assisted living facility, we need to rehome Lucy, her long-time companion animal whom she adopted as a semi-feral kitten.
January 3, 2026 at 4:54 PM
UNC Greensboro's Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program is hiring a professional-track faculty lecturer with expertise in critical health studies broadly construed! Check out position # 13903 on spartantalent.uncg.edu.
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 PM
UPDATE: This big cutie’s people have been found & he has been reunited with them! His real name is Ghost, he’s 11, & he is VERY loved. It was such an honor to get to know him these last couple of days. And I hope he enjoys his new collar & coat too! What an absolute lovebug!
December 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Update on the sweet bully I found: He stayed the night at my friend Elizabeth’s house, & he was the sweetest boy! We’re calling him Wally, short for Walrus, & he’s absolutely the sweetest to humans & other pups! I’m taking him to the vet this morning to get him a rabies shot & get him checked out.
December 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“I don’t know how to see // the world but not to see. How to love the world but to see // one thing completely.”

Good morning! I am reading A MAGNIFICENT LONELINESS by Allison Benis White (Four Way Books, 2025) with my coffee.
December 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
So proud of all our 1st-year poets & fiction writers who got to celebrate the end of their 1st semester at @mfagreensboro.bsky.social with Arrivals, a reading event at Greensboro Project Space! It’s always such a wonderfully cozy & supportive event. Thanks to everyone who came out ✨
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
When were y’all gonna tell me Mavis Staples had a new album? 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Do you all follow @lenamschmitt.bsky.social's Daybook on Substack? It's my absolute fave. Gorgeous, thoughtful meanderings on art, life, & reading with watercolor illustrations. Honestly, she's so brilliant & I'm so proud she's my friend. Find her at daybook.substack.com.
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
October 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Goodbye, notebook (Saturday, November 23, 2024–Thursday, October 9, 2025). Hello, notebook (Thursday, October 9, 2025– ).
October 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Look out! Jameela Dallis’s ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING & THE DEAD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social) is out in the world, in bookstores! Here it’s seen in Scuppernong Books! Come out to Dallis’s reading for @mfagreensboro.bsky.social at Scup this Thursday at 6 PM ET!
October 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This year’s #Lammys are virtual! I’m a finalist for the LGBTQ+ Award in Poetry & I’ll be on a panel called “Beyond the Gender Binary” with Lonnie Garcia & Jennifer Espinoza at 11 AM ET. The award ceremony is 5–7 PM PM & hosted by Jozie Clapp! Tickets are $55.20 for all day access! Link in stories!
October 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
October 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Made a bouquet & found (what I believe to be) a Goldenrod Crab Spider 🥹 I didn’t realize until I was in the car, well on my way from Greensboro to Durham, & so I did my best to give her an access point back into nature
September 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Thrilled I got to be there tonight to celebrate one of my dearest friends in the world as she launched her first book into the world! Congratulations, Jameela Dallis on ENCOUNTERS FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (@riverriverbooks.bsky.social)!
September 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
In my ongoing quest to do things I would have done if I hadn’t been closeted & married in my early 20s, I got my eyebrow pierced
September 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My weekend read: LEAN ON ME: A POLITICS OF RADICAL CARE (Verso, 2023) by Lynne Segal

#nowreading #nonfiction #books #care #community #affectivenetworks
September 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I’m a finalist for a 2025 Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry! The Lammys have been celebrating LGBTQ+ books since 1989 and I am so excited to be a part of this legacy.

Check out the rest of this year’s finalists at lambdaliterary.org/awards/curre...
#Lammys2025 #Lammys
September 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I forgot to post yesterday’s book I read for the #SealeyChallenge: THROWN IN THE THROAT by Benjamin Garcia (Milkweed, 2020). How lush, how varied this book is! I’m a fan!
August 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“Some say my pronouns / should be used for the plural only, // but my dreams / are singular”

—Cass Donish (@cassdonish.bsky.social), “Dignity” from YOUR DAZZLING DEATH (Knopf, 2024), which I’m reading as I catch up on the #sealeychallenge today!
August 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM