A poet and essayist from New York City, Emma is the author of the poetry collection The Real World (BlazeVOX Books, 2022) and translator of A Failed Performance: Short Plays & Scenes by Daniil Kharms (Plays Inverse, 2018). She has a BA in Russian History & Literature from Harvard, an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and is currently a PhD candidate in Literature at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Drift, The Colorado Review, ZYZZYVA, Fence, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.
She is the editor-in-chief of Stone Soup Magazine—the magazine 100% created by kids for kids (we like to think of ourselves as the Paris Review for the under-thirteen set!).
Finally, she is the co-author of The Complete College Essay Handbook, and works one-on-one with a select group of students on their college application essays each year.
