There it is, the bird of paradise with the neverending sword beak –
Emma Catherine Hoff
Emma Catherine Hoff is a writer and poet from New York City, where she lives with her parents and her cat, Gavroche. She is the Poetry Society's commended Foyle Young Poet of the Year 2023 and 2024. In 2025, she won second place in the Poetry Society of New York Youth Poetry Contest. Her poems have appeared in the Rattle Young Poets Anthology, The Louisville Review, The Poetry Society, The Poetry Society of New York's Milk Press, Ember, and Stone Soup Magazine. Her podcast, Poetry Soup, appears regularly on the Stone Soup website. She is also a member of the Stone Soup editorial board. Her poetry collection, titled An Archeology of the Future, was published in the fall of 2023. It won Stone Soup’s 2022 Book Contest.