EMILY Withnall: Writer, Editor, & Instructor
Emily is from the high mountain desert of northern New Mexico. Her essays appear in Orion, The Kenyon Review, Gay Magazine, Tin House Magazine, The Rumpus, Orion, Indiana Review, River Teeth Journal, Fourth River, Lunch Ticket, Ms. Magazine, Al Jazeera, and High Country News, among others. Her articles have been published by The New York Times, Business Insider, The Progressive Magazine, El Palacio, and the Santa Fe New Mexican, among others. Her work has been anthologized in Greetings from Janeland (Cleis Press) and We Leave the Flowers Where They Are (Sweetgrass Books). Emily won first place in creative nonfiction for the AWP Kurt Brown Award and was named a finalist for the Sustainable Arts Foundation Awards. She received a fellowship for the Summer Fishtrap Writers Workshop, was selected for the 2018 Tin House Summer Writing Workshop, and was awarded a fellowship to Under the Volcano in 2020 and a fellowship to the Women’s International Study Center in 2022. Emily is the recipient of writing grants from the Barbara Deming Foundation, the New Mexico Writers Award, and the John Anson Kittredge Fund. Emily currently serves as a editorial fellow for Community Change. She is at work on a book that examines the parallels between domestic violence and hydraulic fracturing.