POEMS POEMS
POEMS POEMS POEMS
Lillian is located in Eugene, Oregon, where she writes mostly poems and runs a small farm and arts collective called Valentine Farmstead. Her writing centers around labor, gender, grief, and the American West.
LILLIAN EMERICK VALENTINE
Poet, Farmer & Writer
selected publications
“Exhibit in Reversal”, Frontier Poetry, 2024 Portrait Prize Winner
“Had Been”, The Journal
“Pastoral with Agroindustry II”, Ecotone
“Arrival Elegy”, Pacifica Literary Review
“The Uncanny as an Assisted Jump”, Puerto del Sol, print only
“Flood Elegy”, The Plentitudes, third place Plentitudes Prize
“Elegy Pruning Blueberries”, Salamander
“Pastoral with Agroindustry”, The Fjords Review, Best New Poet Nomination
“Point of Contact”, Cathexis Northwest Press
“Elegy with a Dream of a River II”, SWWIM Everyday
“The Desire Catalogue”, “Parable of Io”, “Parable of Daphne”, North Dakota Quarterly
“Preserving the Voice Boxes of Birds”, Redactions, print only
“Self-Portrait with the Sound of the Sea”, Black Fox Literary Magazine, under Lily Emerick
ABOUT
Lillian Emerick Valentine is a poet and organic farmer from western Oregon. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana, where she taught creative writing and composition. She has received a Fishtrap Fellowship, Hugo Fellowship, Greta Wrolstad Travel Award, and Kidd Scholarship for her poetry. Her work has won prizes from Frontier Poetry and The Plentitudes, been nominated for Best New Poets and AWP Intro Journal Awards, and was a runner up for the Madeline DeFrees Prize.
In addition to the University of Montana, she’s taught poetry through Fishtrap, the Montana Arts Council’s Poetry Out Loud program, and as part of a homeschool curriculum for middle schoolers. She was the poetry editor for Cutbank Literary Magazine and previously the Art Editor. An avid backpacker, cyclist, and runner, she spends as much time as possible outside.