“Then My Eyes Got Hungry”: On Diane Seuss’s “Memory Fed Me until It Didn’t,” by Emilia Phillips

In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Emilia Phillips’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.)

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Emilia Phillips is a poet with four poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Embouchure (2021). They are an associate professor of creative writing in the Department of English; MFA in Writing Program; and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNC Greensboro.