ABOUT
Emily Hyland’s debut collection, Divorced Business Partners, was published by Howling Bird Press in October 2024. Her second collection, Post-Mastectomy Poems, is forthcoming with Cornerstone Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin Press in September 2026.
Hyland's poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Review, Frontier Poetry, and The Hollins Critic, among others. She earned her MFA in poetry and her MA in English education from Brooklyn College.
Her cookbook, Emily: The Cookbook, was published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, in 2018. Hyland is the eponymous co-founder of the international restaurant groups Pizza Loves Emily + Emmy Squared Pizza.
Emily lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she writes and teaches yoga. Emily earned her 200 hour certification at Yogamaya in 2012 along with 75 hours of advanced training in therapeutics and has since studied Yin with Corina Benner through Wake Up Yoga in Philadelphia.
Emily has taught and mentored at an array of NYC studios over the past decade; most notably, she was a founding team member at Love is Juniper in Prospect Heights where she helped develop and lead teacher training.
Emily is a partner at YogaSource in SantaFe. There, she endeavors to infuse her classroom with warmth and positivity. Her teaching centers around encouraging students to tune into nuanced expressions of proprioception in order to develop ongoing, active dialogue with the body.
SHARING KINDNESS & WELLBEING
BREAST HEALTH AWARENESS
In July 2023, Emily embarked on a 2-part procedure, spanning the year, to undergo a prophylactic double mastectomy with DIEP-flap reconstruction. Though she does not have the BRCA gene, she is high-risk through family history; her mom, aunt, and great aunt all died of breast cancer, and her cousin has battled breast cancer for over a decade.
At only thirty, Emily had her first lumpectomy; less than a year after her mom died, she had a cyst aspirated. Two more popped up on her following mammogram. Fortunately, everything was benign, but the recurring nature of suspicious tissue was enough to compel her to advocate for herself and take this radical action.
Emily is eager to use her platform more and more to amplify the importance of breast health awareness. She is a brand ambassador for Meadow, which designs bras with both comfort and style in mind, for women post-surgery. Emily has written two poetic memoirs about her experience in hopes those will be published and bring even more attention to the complex emotional landscape of the previvor/breast cancer journey.
Additionally, annually, for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month every October, Emily in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn embarks on a fundraising campaign to support The Breasties, which is the first all-inclusive nonprofit organization that creates a community for survivors, previvors, stage four thrivers, and caregivers impacted by breast and gynecologic cancers. All month long, the restaurant offers a special fundraising menu where special prizes are rewarded to guests in exchange for donations, in addition to menu items that are designated for a portion of proceeds donation. The restaurant also holds a special complimentary weekend brunch for Breasties members.
Emily Hyland also supports this initiative at her yoga studio in Santa Fe, YogaSource, with donation-based classes. The restaurant matches these donations.
Charities and Organizations
The Breasties is the first all-inclusive nonprofit organization that creates community for survivors, previvors, stage 4 thrivers, and caregivers impacted by breast and gynecologic cancers.
Nestled within the beauty of the Catskill mountains, they source existing locations that offer a stage for our performances, infrastructure, accessibility, and a breathtaking landscape, all while leaving a minimal carbon footprint.
The Laura Boss Poetry Foundation
The Foundation sponsors poetry contests and provide other support to the poetry community in honor of Laura Boss, a celebrated New Jersey poet who died of pancreatic cancer.
An open-door shelter whose mission is to improve the lives of animals in underserved communities.
Our lives can be measured in moments of backing off or going straight ahead—backing off of conflict, difficulty, frustration, fear or a willingness to trust and go with the moment—not because it’s comfortable but because it’s here.
— Katherine Thanas
