Meet Emma

Emma Comery is a multi-disciplinary writer whose work has appeared in The Bend Magazine, Military Families Magazine, and Reserve & National Guard Magazine. She is the recipient of the Cantrell Prize for poetry and her work is published on Poets.org. Emma earned her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Old Dominion University, where she was a Perry Morgan Fellow and served as Nonfiction Editor for Barely South Review.

 

After years of following her husband’s military career around the country, she has recently returned (for good!) to coastal Washington State. Her debut book, SERVICE ETIQUETTE, explores the experiences of modern military spouses, and is forthcoming from Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, in 2026.