Emily earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is a psychologist, a geographer, and an amateur astronomer. Her dissertation, entitled The Psychodynamics of Poetry, was published by Lambert Academic Publications, 2010. Modern Ekphrasis was published by Peter Lang in March 2013. Her poem “Imago” was commended in the Cambridge Writers Poetry Competition and “The White Owl” in the Stanza Competition in London in 2014. “The Stags” and “The Estuary” were both published in The London Magazine. The first edition of A Woman by A Well: A Self-Portrait was published by Melinda Cochrane International, Monréal, in January 2014. Resilience and the second edition of A Woman by A Well were both launched by Troubador Books in the UK in 2015. The Threshold of Broken Waters, a verse-memoir, was published in 2018. A poetry book about the pandemic and the intense dreaming process caused by the confinement is entitled Apperception, 2020. Her most recent poetry book, entitled The Undertow, is about the links of love and loss expressed through the metaphors of the seas. At present, Emily is enrolled in The Institute of Psychoanalysis in London.
She blogs on her website: http://www.emiliebilman.wixsite.com/emily-bilman
