Emily Moon (she/her) is a transgender poet from Portland, Ore. Emily began writing poetry in 1971 when thirteen. She stepped out of the Poetry Closet in 2011, the year she founded the Estacada Poetry Project. EPP published Take a Leap, an anthology of Estacada area poets, in 2012. She is Editor at First Matter Press. Her book It’s Just You and Me, Miss Moon, was published by First Matter Press prior to her taking on an editorial role. Her work includes appearances in or forthcoming from Pile Press, Hecate Magazine, Firefly Review, Mulberry Literary, Labyrinth Anthologies, and Brazos River Review.