Emily is a fiction writer, screenwriter, and essayist. Her writing has appeared in The Cut, Washington Post, VICE, Catapult, and Fiction Magazine among others.

Her work has received funding and fellowships from VCCA, Tin House, Sewanee Writers Conference, UCLA, the University of Miami, Key West Writers, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Wesleyan Writers Conference where she taught as a fiction and screenwriting fellow. She is a graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, where she won seven Hopwood awards for her novel, short fiction, essays and play, and was honored with the Meijer Post-Graduate Fellowship and the Farrar Memorial Prize in Playwriting. She earned her undergraduate degree in screenwriting from the School of Motion Pictures at the University of Miami and wrote for the long-running Warner Brothers TV show Supernatural. Raised in Connecticut, she has lived in Miami, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn, and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Michigan.

Emily spent several years recovering from a massive stroke and TBI caused by complications after she gave birth to her daughter. She speaks publicly for MommasVoices, a program of the Preeclampsia Foundation, and sits on the Board for Patient and Community Action of the Obstetrics Initiative of Michigan. She is the founder of maternalinterrupted.com, a program to support parents healing from maternal health traumas, and is the founder of Authors for Maternal Health fundraiser. She is a certified wellness counselor, trained in end-of-life care, grief and trauma, and homeopathic medicine. Her patient story has been featured on podcasts and news, including in ProPublica’s Pulitzer-nominated Lost Mothers series, Connecticut Public Radio, Columbia Presbyterian Neurosurgery’s Patient Stories Series, USA Today, New York Magazine, and The Washington Post. She is currently at work on a book investigating the stigmatization of maternal health complications and has written a novel about female teenage opiate addiction.