Emily Paige Wilson

Emily Paige Wilson is the author of the young adult novel-in-verse Four Months Past Florence and the full-length poetry collection Jalubí (Unsolicited Press, 2022) in addition to two chapbooks: Hypochondria, Least Powerful of the Greek Gods (Glass Poetry Press, 2020) and I'll Build Us a Home (Finishing Line Press, 2018). Her work has been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and the Pushcart Prize. In 2023, she served as a founding staff member of Punch Bucket Lit, LCC, a literary non-profit based in West Asheville.

She works in higher education fundraising and lives in Asheville with her husband, the poet Eli Sahm, and their two cats, Gator and Minnow.

Emily Paige Wilson’s inspiring YA novel in verse is at times gripping and dripping with teenage angst, but always heartwarming and inspiring. Told in captivating lyrical verse, Four Months Past Florence follows an aspiring high school journalist's journey through friendship breakups, a moral dilemma that threatens her family, and the realization that life, like the weather, doesn’t always unfold as predicted.

Four Months Past Florence is the story of Millie Willard, a high school junior from a small, coastal town in South Carolina with dreams of becoming a hard-hitting journalist, despite feeling sidelined in her current position as the weatherwoman for her school’s newspaper, The Bloom. Little does she know, Hurricane Florence is brewing off the coast with plans to change everything. Four Months Past Florence is a thunderous page turner that will leave you believing that, just maybe, the kids are all right.