About Emily
emily.nemens@gmail.com
Emily Nemens is a writer and illustrator living in Louisiana.
Emily grew up in Seattle (b. 1983), then moved to Providence (BA in art history and studio at Brown, magna cum laude), Madrid (drawing in Spanish), Washington (the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art), and Brooklyn (the Metropolitan Museum and American Institute of Architects). With ties to Omaha, Arkansas (grandparents), Orlando (Kerouac’s house), the southwest (Mariners’ spring training), and now, Louisiana (LSU's MFA program in creative writing), she's covered most of the country. The exploration of people in places – geographic, architectural, or otherwise – is central to her writing.
Her first book of stories, Scrub, was published in 2007 in conjunction with her residency at the Kerouac Project of Orlando, and was shortlisted for a 2008 IPPY. She's a HEEB 100 for literature, and was one of Shalom Life's Top 20 Jews in the Arts. As an illustrator, she’s collaborated with Harvey Pekar and snuck a piece into the Met. Also at the Met, she edited the book "Painting Words, Sculpting Language: Creative Writing Workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art."
Current projects include short stories, a novel set in Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, a screenplay about logging and Nirvana, painting portraits of every woman in the 112th US Congress, and learning how to be sportswriter. She is also the editorial assistant at The Southern Review and the art editor at New Delta Review.
Scroll through the sections on the left to learn more about recent fiction, nonfiction, and illustration projects.
Emily Nemens is a writer and illustrator living in Louisiana.Emily grew up in Seattle (b. 1983), then moved to Providence (BA in art history and studio at Brown, magna cum laude), Madrid (drawing in Spanish), Washington (the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art), and Brooklyn (the Metropolitan Museum and American Institute of Architects). With ties to Omaha, Arkansas (grandparents), Orlando (Kerouac’s house), the southwest (Mariners’ spring training), and now, Louisiana (LSU's MFA program in creative writing), she's covered most of the country. The exploration of people in places – geographic, architectural, or otherwise – is central to her writing.
Her first book of stories, Scrub, was published in 2007 in conjunction with her residency at the Kerouac Project of Orlando, and was shortlisted for a 2008 IPPY. She's a HEEB 100 for literature, and was one of Shalom Life's Top 20 Jews in the Arts. As an illustrator, she’s collaborated with Harvey Pekar and snuck a piece into the Met. Also at the Met, she edited the book "Painting Words, Sculpting Language: Creative Writing Workshops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art."
Current projects include short stories, a novel set in Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, a screenplay about logging and Nirvana, painting portraits of every woman in the 112th US Congress, and learning how to be sportswriter. She is also the editorial assistant at The Southern Review and the art editor at New Delta Review.
Scroll through the sections on the left to learn more about recent fiction, nonfiction, and illustration projects.
