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 Writing (Prose & Poetry, Cross-Genre), Visual Poetry, and Essay Writing workshops.

This summer (2025), Emma is teaching three multimedia and visual writing workshops at Brooklyn Poets and virtually through the Sundress Academy for the Arts — sign up for her current workshops and learn more about her teaching experience here.

Her writing has been published by TILT, TriQuarterly, Barrelhouse Magazine, Milk Press,  Juked, Metatron Press, The InQueery, Cherub Magazine, Glass Mountain, and elsewhere. She has a lyric essay forthcoming in Cobra Milk. Learn more on the publications page.

Emma has also been featured in readings and panels with Poets in Pajamas, Brooklyn Poets, the Poetry Society of New York, the [untitled collective], and more. Read more about Emma's creative recognition, editorial and residency experience, and events in the literary world on the experience page.

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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). Summa cum laude and first in her Humanities & Sciences class.

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Her teaching experience began at Ithaca College, where she was a peer tutor at the IC Writing Center, a teaching assistant at the Ithaca Writers Institute, where she assisted the personal essay and poetry professors for two summers, and a professor’s apprentice for a 200-level personal essay course. After graduating, Emma worked as an Essay Writing Instructor for youth aged 9 through 18 at Writopia Lab, 501(c)3.

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From 2020-2022, she 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.