Emily Hiestand (born 1947 Chicago) is an American writer and poet.
In 1970, she moved to Boston, where she worked as a graphic designer.
She studied at Boston University, with George Starbuck.
[1] She was an editor at Orion magazine and the Atlantic Monthly.
[4][5] Emily Hiestand stretches the elastic border "around the place we call home," dissolving boundaries imposed by time and geography as she looks beneath the surface of the familiar.