Emily Choate is the fiction editor of Peauxdunque Review. Her fiction appears in storySouth, Mississippi Review, Shenandoah, Rappahannock Review, Florida Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Peatsmoke, and elsewhere. She writes reviews, features, and interviews for Chapter 16, and other nonfiction has appeared in Atticus Review, Longridge Review, and Nashville Scene, among others. Her work has been runner-up in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Competition and Longridge Review‘s Anne C. Barnhill Prize for Creative Nonfiction. In addition, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Emily holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, and she was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference.
Emily has held residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Hambidge Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology. She has taught writing and lit courses of various size and shape, held library jobs, and freelanced. She lives in a small town near Nashville, where she’s working on a novel. Here’s where you reach her: emily(dot)c(dot)choate(at)gmail(dot)com
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