Hello! I’m Emma. I’m guessing you found your way here because you know me from my chaotic group house artistic partnership feelings novel, Housemates, or maybe my New Republic piece about fatphobia in fiction or Lux Magazine piece about The Unhinged Bisexual Novel or Esquire piece about the importance of fact-checking nonfiction books. I also wrote a narrative nonfiction book about how we tell American stories, misogyny, women hitchhiking in the 1980s, and one crime that changed a community in central West Virginia, founded a nonprofit community home for Philly writers, teach creative writing for various institutions of higher learning, and work with aspiring writers of fiction and nonfiction to edit their manuscripts in progress. Those are my jobs in the world.
This monthly newsletter is meant to be looser, more casual, a place for experimentations. A place for meditations on the writing life, what kind of books and words I actually want to see in the world, the mysteries of having a body, the long process of recovering from diet culture, and whatever delights in the lands of ice cream and popular culture I’m excited about at the moment.
I’m so grateful you’re here. Community has been bonkers important in my development as a writer and thinker and I value all you have to bring. Please leave a comment or send me a note if you want to connect.
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Emma
