Born in New Orleans and raised in Brooklyn, Emily is a writer, teacher, and content alchemist with 25+ years of experience working with high-profile authors on voice-driven memoirs and compelling, lucrative novels.

Her clients have sold projects to imprints of Simon and Schuster, Double Day, and Random House. Their essays have been published in Dorothy Parker’s Ashes, Zibby Mag, the Insider, Washington Post, Salon, Kveller, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, The Cut, Women's Health, Today, and Vogue.

Emily is adept at working with authors with a wide variety of voices and experiences. She has special expertise in story structure and ideation, drawing from her years as a teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights and a professor at Hunter College and Stern College. Her book Did Jew Know? (Chronicle) is a humorous and informative cultural history of all things Jewish from Saul to Seinfeld. Her essays and interviews covering movies, books, and TV have been published in Salon and Paper Brigade.

Emily received her MFA at Hunter College and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Alongside her work developing books, Emily is working on a middle-grade novel and teaching creative writing (fiction/memoir) to kids and adults. She also runs a popular online Book Dive, a collision of pop culture and high criticism that explores classic gothic and genre novels. She lives with her wife in New York City.