Emily Lee Luan is the author of 回 / Return, a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, and I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. 

A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry, and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, Best New Poets 2019, American Poetry Review, LitHub, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and scholarships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Jentel, Millay, Monson Arts, Lighthouse Works, and Storyknife.

She holds an MFA from Rutgers University–Newark and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Adelphi University.