Emma is an essayist, poet, writer of experimental forms, writing workshop instructor, and co-founding editor of A Velvet Giant, a genreless literary journal. She teaches multimedia/hybrid writing writing, poetry, and essay/creative nonfiction, workshops. Currently, Emma holds a faculty position at Brooklyn Poets.
Her writing has been published by TILT, Cobra Milk, Voicemail Poems, TriQuarterly, Barrelhouse Magazine, Milk Press, Juked, Metatron Press, The InQueery, Cherub Magazine, Glass Mountain, and elsewhere. Learn more on the publications page.
Emma has been featured in readings and panels organized by Helios: Festival Internacional de Cine Poético, Poets in Pajamas (SAFTA), Brooklyn Poets, the Poetry Society of New York, the [untitled collective], and more. She has also been a Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week.
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Emma earned her Bachelor of Arts in Writing with concentrations in Nonfiction and Creative Writing from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. She also minored in English Literature, Counseling (Psychology & Sociology), and the Honors Program and was passionate about editing the department literary magazine Stillwater (EIC 2016-2018). Emma graduated Summa cum laude and first in her Humanities & Sciences class.
After earning her degree, Emma worked as an Essay Writing Instructor for youth aged 11-18 at Writopia Lab, 501(c)3. Emma still teaches multimedia and personal essay writing at tri-state area high schools upon invitation.
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From 2020-2022, Emma also co-organized and moderated In Conversation with Historians, a webinar panel series she established to discuss current social justice issues and history with Columbia University history faculty and graduate students, sponsored by the CU Department of History.