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 propulsive, upmarket novels.

Emily is adept at working with authors with a wide variety of voices and experiences and has special expertise in story structure and ideation, drawing from her years as a teacher at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights and 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. From 2007 to 2009, she was head writer for both iVillage.com (The Daily Blabber) and Lifetime Broadband (Celebrity Buzz). Alongside her work developing books, Emily is working on a middle-grade novel, teaches creative writing (fiction/memoir), and 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 Los Angeles.