Emily’s writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, The Masters Review, New Orleans Review, The Florida Review, The South Carolina Review, and other journals. Her short story collection And The Busy World Is Hushed was a finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. She won the Whitefish Review’s 2023 Montana Prize for Fiction, judged by Rick Bass, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Emily studied writing at the graduate level at Sarah Lawrence College and holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana, where she was a writing and teaching fellow. A Tin House Writers Workshop alum, she has been a writer-in-residence at Château d’Orquevaux in France. She currently serves as Associate Director of Content at The Adroit Journal.
Select publications
Print, essays
“In Search of Baubo,” a personal essay forthcoming in Fourth Genre, 2025
Print, short stories & collection
And The Busy World Is Hushed & Other Stories, University of North Texas Press, finalist for the 2024 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction
“Look Don’t Touch,” short fiction in New Orleans Review, Spring 2021
“Another Present Elsewhere,” short fiction in The Florida Review, December 15th, 2020
“Marcyland,” short fiction in The South Carolina Review, November 5, 2019
“Queen for a Day,” short fiction in The McNeese Review, May 15, 2019
“The Ghosts of Arrowheads,” short fiction in The Westchester Review, Fall 2017
Online, short stories and short shorts
“Will You Listen to Me, Please?”, short fiction in The Masters Review, Spring 2025
“The Widow of Shafter,” short fiction in Eclectica Magazine, October 15, 2019
“Alone, Together,” short fiction in Oyster River Pages, August 1, 2019
“Alma,” short fiction in The Chicago Review of Books, July 18, 2019
“The Witnesses,” short fiction in Angel City Review, July 2, 2019
“Dunwoodie,” short fiction in Entropy Magazine, March 20, 2019
“A Stillness That Moves,” short fiction in Gone Lawn, December 1, 2018