Ohioana Book Award Finalist | Winner: Zone 3 Press Award
Praise for East Walnut Hills
"EAST WALNUT HILLS, the breathtaking debut from Emily Spencer, creates a self through seeing. For Spencer, to dwell is to understand the impact of memory, capitalism, education, and ecology on one's location. Cincinnati is nowhere and everywhere—humming with grief and life—in these exquisite poems."
—Claudia Rankine
"EAST WALNUT HILLS is a brilliant achievement."
—Natalie Shapero
"In EAST WALNUT HILLS, the divine and the everyday are indistinguishable from one another. Emily Spencer leads us through these poems as if through the wings of a living museum, imploring us to take our time and look—really look. But Spencer is not our tour guide, she is the artist."
—Paige Lewis
"Spencer's work, as a community-based global citizen, presents an expansive meditation on Black life and perception through residue, through the ghosts of where we, in the particular, have been and are."
—Tracie Morris