Dr Emma Filtness
Senior Lecturer (Education) in Creative Writing

Summary

Dr Emma Filtness is Lecturer in Creative Writing (Academic Education). She is primarily a poet, but also works in prose fiction and narrative non-fiction, with a penchant for hybrid and experimental forms. Broadly her writing explores themes of heritage, migration and work, as well as gender, nature and place. Her current practice involves an exploration of found and visual poetics, including zine-making and mixed-media composition. 

Emma is a Mental Health First Aid Champion, a member of Brunel's staff LGBTQ+ and Disability Network groups. 

Find Emma on Twitter @Em_Filtness and follow her Instagram poetry project exploring nature and the dark feminine @cultofflora.

NB: Preferred prounouns are she/her or they/their.

Qualifications

PhD in Creative Writing, Brunel University London

MA in Creative and Professional Writing, Brunel University

BA in English Literature (with Philosophy), University of Hertfordshire

Responsibility

Academic PAL (Peer-Assisted Learning) Coordinator for English and Creative Writing

Mental Health First Aid Champon