Emily Hyland is a restaurateur, educator, and mindful movement teacher. She earned her MFA in poetry and her MA in English education from Brooklyn College. Her collection of poetry Divorced Business Partners was a finalist for both the Hollis Summer 2024 Poetry Prize and the Unleash Press 2023 Books Award. Hyland recently placed third place in The 2021 Frontier Award for New Poets. Her poetry has appeared in armarolla, The Brooklyn Review, and The Hollins Critic, among others. Her cookbook, Emily: The Cookbook, was published by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, in 2018. Hyland is the co-founder of the beloved Pizza Loves Emily and international restaurant group, Emmy Squared.

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.