The Dogwood Years

Emma Galloway Stephens reads her powm “The Dogwood Years.”

Emma Galloway Stephens is a neurodivergent poet and professor from the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Her poems have appeared in Red Branch Review, The Christian Century, Door is a Jar, Salvation South, and many others. She's the author of No Billboard Gospel (Solum Literary Press, 2026).