Emmy Pérez is a Chicanx poet and writer originally from Santa Ana, California, United States. She was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 2017. She has lived in the borderlands of Texas since 2000, where she has taught creative writing in college and MFA programs, as well as in detention facilities and as part of social justice projects. Her latest collective is Poets Against the Border Wall. She was also a fellow (2010–12) and organizing committee member of CantoMundo (2018–19) and is a long-time member of Macondo Writers Workshop.

What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump
2019
ISBN 9780810140776
Solstice
2011
ISBN 9781930454316
With the river on our face
2016
ISBN 9780816534517
Boxes with Zero Tolerance
2025
ISBN 9781957840482