Emily Kendal Frey is the author of the full-length poetry collection The Grief Performance (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011), selected by Rae Armantrout for CSU's 2010 First Book Prize; the book also won the Poetry Society of America's 2012 Norma Farber First Book Award. She is author of the chapbooks Frances (Poor Claudia, 2010), The New Planet (Mindmade Books, 2010), and Airport (Blue Hour, 2009). Frey received her B.A. from The Colorado College and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. She lives in Portland, Oregon.