emily m. danforth

emily m. danforth's debut novel, The Miseducation Of Cameron Post (HarperCollins 2012), has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, and School Library Journal, and was featured in the LA Times, The Seattle Stranger, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and NPR--whose reviewer called it "...a skillfully and beautifully written story that does what the best books do: It shows us ourselves in the lives of others." emily has an MFA in Fiction from the University of Montana and a Ph.D in English-Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her short story, "The Truest Way to Name Something," was selected by judges Sarah Waters and Robert Glück for the 2008 International Queer Fiction Award from the UK's Chroma Magazine; her short story "Everything That Much Harder," was the recipient of the 2004 George Garret Fiction Award from Willow Springs magazine. She teaches creative writing and literature courses at Rhode Island College in Providence and is also 1/3 of the editorial/publishing staff of The Cupboard, a quarterly prose chapbook eagerly awaiting your submissions. She is the former assistant director of the Nebraska Summer Writers Conference.

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