Writing

Fiction, feature and narrative reporting, opinion, and analysis.

Fiction:

• Current project: A completed manuscript for The Irregulars, a historical novel set during and immediately after the American Civil War and told through the lens of women and queer people’s experiences.
• Emily’s first novel, “The Fix Up,” was self-published in 2008 and is available for sale online as well as in Madison at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore, and now at the Madison Public Library’s Central Branch!
• Short stories “Shelter,” first-place winner, Black Rock & Sage’s Three Genres Fiction Contest; “Pistol in the Mud,” 3rd place winner, Madison Magazine’s short fiction contest 2007.
• A poem, “The Killer of Frogs,” was published in Free Verse  issue #95.

Reporting, essays, and opinions:

• NBC Think
• Rewire.News
• Tone Madison
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, columnist (10/1/13 | 10/26/13 | 2/1/14 | 5/17/14) (weekly – ended 9/18)
• Our Lives Magazine
• Dane101.com: Editor, contributing writer (track)
• Isthmus: freelancer (article archive), blogger from 2009 to 2011 (archive)
• Derby Central
• Madison Magazine
• The Capital Times/77 Square
• Wisconsin Gazette
• The Progressive (track)
• Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine
• Footlights Magazine

Non-fiction books/collections:

• “Cut From Plain Cloth: The 2011 Wisconsin Worker Protests” (Dennis Weidemann, 2011 Manitenahk Books) – photos
• “We Are Wisconsin – The Wisconsin uprising in the words of the activists, writers, and everyday Wisconsinites who made it happen” (Erica Sagrans ed., 2011 Tasora Books) – essay

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