About Emily
I love writing and it’s always felt like the extra step I have to take to make sense of the world. As the daughter of English professors, maybe it’s not a surprise that I’m a writer, but it took me a long time to transition from confiding my secrets in journals to writing professionally. I was born and raised in Michigan, but left for the wide world when I was eighteen, deferring college to work and travel. I lived in London, New York City, and Boston, before going to college at twenty-four. My restless spirit finally found a home in the rolling hills and fog-laced sun of the Bay Area. After completing my master’s degree in drama at San Francisco State University, I founded a theatre company, The Shee, along with four other women. While working in the theater as a director and producer, I taught drama, and, later, elementary school in private schools in San Francisco. Not long after my twin daughters were born, my husband and I moved to Half Moon Bay, a coastal town South of San Francisco. Running and playing on the beach with my girls and my dog, gleaning sea glass, and walking the path home under the canopy of cypress trees are some of my greatest joys. I’ve written pages and pages of novels, short stories, personal essays, and all manner of scraps, terrors, and dreams over the years. Some of it has made its way to the world. I’ve written about parenting for Red Typewriter Magazine, life on the Coast around Half Moon Bay for PUNCH (Spirit of the Peninsula), and I’ve had creative non-fiction or personal essays published in Salon, Herstryblg, Sunlight Press, Sensitive Skin Magazine, MacGuffin, and Flights. My middle grade book, Tumbledown, is currently out for consideration.