bio

emily m. danforth has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana and a Ph.D in English-Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her first novel, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post, is published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. emily's short story, "The Truest Way to Name Something," was selected by judges Sarah Waters and Robert Glück for the 2008 International Queer Fiction Award from the UK's Chroma Magazine, and her short story "Everything That Much Harder," was the recipient of the 2004 George Garret Fiction Award from Willow Springs magazine. Her fiction has been short-listed for numerous contests and awards, and two of her short stories have been nominated for Pushcart prizes. She teaches creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College in Providence and is also 1/3 of the editorial/publishing staff of The Cupboard, a quarterly prose chapbook eagerly awaiting your submissions.

emily was born and raised in Miles City, Montana, a town best known for its Bucking Horse Sale-which was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for hosting the most intoxicated people, per capita, of any US event. She obsessively collects erasers, large-letter linen postcards from the 1940s, snow-globes, and neologisms. (She has an iced-coffee addiction, too.)

Here is a picture of emily in a canoe:

Here is a picture of emily not in a canoe: