Emily Louise Smith is the publisher and art director of Ecotone and the co-founder and publisher of its sister imprint, Lookout Books. She teaches in the creative writing department at UNC Wilmington, where she also directs the publishing certificate program. Her honors include fellowships from the Studios of Key West, Hambidge, and the Hub City Writers Project, as well as a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize. Her poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in Best New Poets, the Southern Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology, New South, 27 Views of Wilmington, and Literary Publishing in the 21st Century.