BIO

Emma Smith-Stevens is the author of a forthcoming short story collection, Greyhounds, which was awarded grand prize in Santa Fe Writers Project’s 2022 Literary Awards, judged by Deesha Philyaw. Smith-Stevens is also the author of a novel, The Australian (Dzanc Books, 2017). She grew up in New York City and has worked as a server at a pancake house in Delray Beach, Florida, a department store gift-wrapper in Boca Raton, a personal assistant in Los Angeles, a scriptwriter for virtual patients used by nursing students, and has taught writing and literature at the University of Florida, Santa Fe College, and the Bard Prison Initiative.

Smith-Stevens' writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine, Literary Hub, Catapult, Wigleaf, The Evergreen Review, Subtropics, Southampton Review, Joyland, Conjunctions, the New York Times bestselling and Lambda Literary award-winning anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches From Rape Culture (Ed. Roxane Gay, Harper Collins), Against Death: 35 Essays on Living (Ed. Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Anvil Press), and elsewhere. Her work received a Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, was selected as a Notable Essay in the 2021 Best American Essays (Ed. Alexander Chee), and was twice included in Wigleaf 's Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions. She holds a B.A. in literature from Bard College and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Florida. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and is working on a memoir.