Emily Nemens
Emily Nemens is the author of the novels The Cactus League (2020) and the forthcoming Clutch. She spent a dozen years editing literary quarterlies, including leading The Paris Review, and serving as co-editor and prose editor of The Southern Review.
Photo by James Emmerman.
Biography
Emily Nemens is the author of the novels The Cactus League (2020) and Clutch, which will be published next year. Emily spent a dozen years editing literary quarterlies, including leading The Paris Review, which won its first American Society of Magazine Editors’ Award for Fiction under her tenure; she also served as co-editor of The Southern Review. She held the 2022-23 Picador Professorship at the University of Leipzig and teaches community-based fiction workshops. Photo by James Emmerman